Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.”

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202. “Life brings to you exactly what you need. There is perfect justice in hell. There is nothing to blame. We can even say that our suffering is a gift. If you just open your eyes and see what is around you, it’s exactly what you need to clean your poison, to heal your wounds, to accept yourself, and to get out of hell.”

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203. “Master: It is Love. Love is the medicine that accelerates the process of healing. There is no other medicine but unconditional love. Not: I love you if, or I love myself if. There is no if. There is no justification. There is no explanation. It is just to love. Love yourself, love your neighbor, and love your enemies. This is simple, common sense, but we cannot love others until we love ourselves. That is why we must begin with self-love.”

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204. “In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.”

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205. “Love is based on respect. Fear doesn’t respect anything, including itself. If I feel sorry for you, it means I don’t respect you. You cannot make your own choices.”

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206. “The way we judge ourselves is the worst judge that ever existed. If we make a mistake in front of people, we try to deny the mistake and cover it up. But as soon as we are alone, the Judge becomes so strong, the guilt is so strong, and we feel so stupid, or so bad, or so unworthy.”

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207. “The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses, and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later.”

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208. “Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist’s work – but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.”

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209. “People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do.”

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210. “Finally, if you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of love coming out of you, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltecs, the Mastery of Love.”

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211. “The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not.”

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212. “Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well. But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.”

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213. “Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love.”

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214. “Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn’t you.”

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215. “The Belief System was put inside you like a program by the outside Dream. The Toltecs call this program the Parasite. The human mind is sick because it has a Parasite that steals its vital energy and robs it of joy. The Parasite is all those beliefs that make you suffer.”

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216. “The emotional energy that lives in our home is going to tune our emotional body to that frequency.”

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217. “When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it’s no longer truth – it’s our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn’t mean it’s true for anyone else.”

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218. “Do not be concerned about the future; keep your attention on today, and stay in the present moment. Just live one day at a time. Always do your best to keep these agreements, and soon it will be easy for you. Today is the beginning of a new dream.”

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219. “How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.”

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220. “Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for.”

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221. “Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.”

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222. “What makes you happy is love coming out of you. And if you are generous with your love, everyone is going to love you. You are never going to be alone if you are generous. If you are selfish, you are always going to be alone, and there is no one to blame but you. Your generosity will open all the doors, not your selfishness. Selfishness.”

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223. “Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, “Am I happy or am I suffering?” If I’m suffering, then I’m not being impeccable with my word.”

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224. “Hemos de perdonar a los que creemos que se han portado mal con nosotros, no porque se lo merezcan, sino porque sentimos tanto amor por nosotros mismos que no queremos continuar pagando por esas injusticias.”

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225. “When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!”

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226. “Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.”

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227. “We have to be what we are, so we don’t have to present a false image. If you love me the way I am, “Okay, take me.” If you don’t love me the way I am, “Okay, bye-bye. Find someone else.” It may sound harsh, but this kind of communication means the personal agreements we make with others are clear and impeccable.”

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228. “Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.”

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229. “We want to know. If we don’t know, we don’t feel safe, we don’t feel secure.”

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230. “All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally.”

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231. “Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.”

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232. “If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. You learned to write, to drive, and even to walk by repetition. You are a master of speaking your language because you practiced. Action is what makes the difference.”

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233. “If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don’t get bored, we don’t have frustrations.”

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234. “When you do your best you learn to accept yourself. But you have to be aware and learn from your mistakes. Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.”

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235. “That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people’s demands. We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.”

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236. “Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.”

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237. “A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself.”

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238. “You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything.”

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239. “True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.”

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240. “We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind.”

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241. “Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being. As children we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.”

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242. “When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.”

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243. “Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don’t have the need to be accepted. You can say “I love you” with no shame or justification. You can walk in the world with your heart completely open, and not be afraid to be hurt.”

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244. “Forgiveness is the only way to heal. We can choose to forgive because we feel compassion for ourselves.”

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245. “Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication.”

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246. “If you understand the first agreement, be impeccable with your word, you begin to see all the changes that can happen in your life. Changes first in the way you deal with yourself, and later in the way you deal with other people, especially those you love the most.”

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247. “Confess. Admit that you’ve sinned – that you have harmed your own human being in some way. Repent – that is, make an agreement to stop. Do penance, which means to offer yourself forgiveness. Modify your behavior from that moment forward.”

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248. “You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.”

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249. “It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe.”

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250. “Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.”

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