Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

— Miguel Ruiz

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

— Miguel Ruiz

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Miguel Ruiz

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

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

— Miguel Ruiz

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

— Miguel Ruiz

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

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113. “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.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

— Miguel Ruiz

115. “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

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

— Miguel Ruiz

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

— Miguel Ruiz

118. “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?”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

— Miguel Ruiz

120. “Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.”

— Miguel Ruiz

121. “The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.”

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

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123. “Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you’re expecting a reward.”

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124. “Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.”

— Miguel Ruiz

125. “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

126. “Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

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128. “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

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

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

— Miguel Ruiz

131. “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

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

— Miguel Ruiz

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

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134. “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

135. “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

136. “The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.”

— Miguel Ruiz

137. “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

138. “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

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

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140. “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.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

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142. “Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.”

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143. “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.”

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144. “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.”

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145. “We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.”

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146. “If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

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148. “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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149. “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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150. “Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.”

— Miguel Ruiz