Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don’t Take Anything Personally, Don’t Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.”

— Miguel Ruiz

102. “Don’t believe me, don’t believe yourself, and don’t believe anyone else. By not believing, whatever is untrue will disappear like smoke in this world of illusion. Everything is what it is. You don’t need to justify what is true; you don’t need to explain it. What is true doesn’t need anyone’s support. Your lies need your support.”

— Miguel Ruiz

103. “True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”

— Miguel Ruiz

104. “You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.”

— Miguel Ruiz

105. “Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”

— Miguel Ruiz

106. “Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.”

— Miguel Ruiz

107. “We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.”

— Miguel Ruiz

108. “We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.”

— Miguel Ruiz

109. “My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.”

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110. “You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.”

— Miguel Ruiz

111. “God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.”

— Miguel Ruiz

112. “It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.”

— Miguel Ruiz

113. “All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.”

— Miguel Ruiz

114. “I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”

— Miguel Ruiz

115. “We don’t need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.”

— Miguel Ruiz

116. “Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don’t really like them.”

— Miguel Ruiz

117. “Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.”

— Miguel Ruiz

118. “Today is the beginning of a new dream.”

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119. “Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.”

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120. “What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.”

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121. “You don’t need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them. What else could they teach you but what they know? They did the best they could, and if they abused you, it was due to their own domestication, their own fears, their own beliefs. They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn’t have behaved any differently.”

— Miguel Ruiz

122. “To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn’t dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.”

— Miguel Ruiz

123. “The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.”

— Miguel Ruiz

124. “Life brings you exactly what you need.”

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125. “Your word is the power that you have to create.”

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126. “If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?”

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127. “Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.”

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128. “Don’t take anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering””

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129. “Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”

— Miguel Ruiz

130. “The biggest fear we have is not the fear of dying, but the fear to be alive, to be ourselves, to say what we feel, to ask for what we want, to say yes when we want to say yes, and no when we want to say no. To express what is in our hearts is to be truly alive. If we pretend to be what we are not, how can we be truly alive?”

— Miguel Ruiz

131. “You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.”

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132. “We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.”

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133. “You have the right to be mad, but I don’t have to be mad because you are mad. I didn’t do anything to cause your anger.” You don’t have to accept your partner’s anger at all, but you can allow her to be angry. There is no need to argue; just allow her to be what she is, allow her to heal without intervening. And you can also agree not to interfere with your own healing process.”

— Miguel Ruiz

134. “It’s easier to be skeptical because it’s easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.”

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135. “We ask everybody to help us to change the world, but we are not talking about our planet Earth; we are talking about the world that each one of us creates within our mind. We are talking about the story that we create.”

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136. “With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction – from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.”

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137. “Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.”

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138. “Awareness makes all the difference.”

— Miguel Ruiz

139. “Let us trust ourselves completely to make the choices we must make.”

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140. “Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.”

— Miguel Ruiz

141. “Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference.”

— Miguel Ruiz

142. “Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love.”

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143. “A Toltec is an artist of Love, an artist of the Spirit, someone who is creating every moment, every second, the most beautiful art – the Art of Dreaming. Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of art.”

— Miguel Ruiz

144. “Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.”

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145. “If you consider hell as a state of mind, then hell is all around us. Others may warn us that if we don’t do what they say we should do, we will go to hell. Bad news! We are already in hell, including the people who tell us that. No human can condemn another to hell because we are already there. Others can put us into a deeper hell, true. But only if we allow this to happen.”

— Miguel Ruiz

146. “Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of art.”

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147. “Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.”

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148. “Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others. You no longer rule your behavior according to what others may think about you. You are no longer responsible for anyone’s opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you, either.”

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149. “When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”

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150. “Our brain is the factory of the emotions.”

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