Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”

— Miguel Ruiz

52. “When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!”

— Miguel Ruiz

53. “The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.”

— Miguel Ruiz

54. “Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don’t even think about the opinions of others.”

— Miguel Ruiz

55. “The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, “Thank you, God,” is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.”

— Miguel Ruiz

56. “Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.”

— Miguel Ruiz

57. “I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.”

— Miguel Ruiz

58. “When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it’s like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don’t expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.”

— Miguel Ruiz

59. “Forgiveness is the only way to heal.”

— Miguel Ruiz

60. “To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.”

— Miguel Ruiz

61. “We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.”

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62. “All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.”

— Miguel Ruiz

63. “Love does not want or fear anything.”

— Miguel Ruiz

64. “The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.”

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65. “Respect is one of the greatest expressions of Love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don’t respect you. They consider that you’re not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.”

— Miguel Ruiz

66. “To have faith is to believe unconditionally.”

— Miguel Ruiz

67. “Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.”

— Miguel Ruiz

68. “Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same...”

— Miguel Ruiz

69. “Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.”

— Miguel Ruiz

70. “If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.”

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71. “Love is ruthless; it doesn’t feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.”

— Miguel Ruiz

72. “It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.”

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73. “Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.”

— Miguel Ruiz

74. “Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.”

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75. “Life doesn’t need to be justified or judged.”

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76. “You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.”

— Miguel Ruiz

77. “How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.”

— Miguel Ruiz

78. “And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values – emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.”

— Miguel Ruiz

79. “The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know; it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge.”

— Miguel Ruiz

80. “We search for everything we believe we don’t have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.”

— Miguel Ruiz

81. “You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.”

— Miguel Ruiz

82. “Listen to other people tell their story, but don’t believe them. You know that it’s just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.”

— Miguel Ruiz

83. “Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.”

— Miguel Ruiz

84. “Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.”

— Miguel Ruiz

85. “Say only what you mean.”

— Miguel Ruiz

86. “When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.”

— Miguel Ruiz

87. “I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.”

— Miguel Ruiz

88. “Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.”

— Miguel Ruiz

89. “The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don’t believe in lies, they simply disappear.”

— Miguel Ruiz

90. “What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.”

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91. “Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.”

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92. “When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.”

— Miguel Ruiz

93. “Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.”

— Miguel Ruiz

94. “I don’t take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people’s stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.”

— Miguel Ruiz

95. “Just to be alive is enough.”

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96. “What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.”

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97. “The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.”

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98. “All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it’s true that there’s a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.”

— Miguel Ruiz

99. “Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you.”

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100. “The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.”

— Miguel Ruiz