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The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz 
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz
Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything is made of light
- don Miguel Ruiz
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our brain is the factory of the emotions
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I want to share with you the three rules
that I have in order to accept an apprentice.
Rule Number 1: Don't believe me.
I don't want you to believe me
but I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.
If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.
But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.
Rule Number 2: Don't believe yourself.
Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie - it's not true.
And by believing yourself, you create all the limitations
that don't allow you to be what you really are.
Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say,
listen to what you think, listen to what you believe.
And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind,
open your intelligence and make choices.
Rule 3 is, don't believe anybody else.
Don't believe them at all.
Open your ears and your mind; listen and make choices.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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