Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.”

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253. “It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.”

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254. “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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255. “Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.”

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256. “You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. Don’t resist life passing through you, because that is God passing through you. Just your existence proves the existence of God. Your existence proves the existence of life and energy.”

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

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258. “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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259. “If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.”

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

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261. “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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262. “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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263. “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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264. “Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.”

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265. “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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266. “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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267. “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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268. “La vida es el mayor regalo que recibimos, y el arte de vivir es el arte supremo.”

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269. “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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270. “From my point of view, humanity is one living being. Male-female – we complement each other in a sacred communion. But once again, respect is the key. Respect is what makes the sacred communion possible.”

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

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273. “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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274. “You can choose to follow your heart always.”

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

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276. “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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277. “Nacemos con el derecho a ser felices, con el derecho a disfrutar de la vida.”

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278. “If you decide to be with a person, don’t try to change anything about her. Just like your dog or your cat, let her be who she is. She has the right to be who she is; she has a right to be free. When you inhibit your partner’s freedom, you inhibit your own because you have to be there to see what your partner is doing or not doing. And if you love yourself so much, you are never going to give up your personal freedom. Can.”

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279. “That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.”

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

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282. “We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear. We don’t perceive things the way they are. We have the habit of dreaming with no basis in reality. We literally dream things up in our imaginations. Because we don’t understand something, we make an assumption about the meaning, and when the truth comes out, the bubble of our dream pops and we find out it was not what we thought it was at all.”

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283. “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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284. “When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts.”

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

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287. “Perhaps you’re not finished with your story, and who knows if you’ll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it’s not that important.”

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288. “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. 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. This is why we make assumptions.”

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289. “Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.”

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290. “Every single human being on this earth make a difference on this planet earth but each one of us make a different contribution and it will be a better contribution when we have more gratitude and more generosity, when we love more.”

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291. “Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.”

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292. “If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.”

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293. “The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.”

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294. “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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295. “You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.”

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296. “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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297. “Sea lo que sea lo que la gente haga, piense o diga, no te lo tomes personalmente.”

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298. “We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.”

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

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300. “We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.”

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