More from Miguel Angel Ruiz
I don’t take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people’s stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don’t want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz 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.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know; it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don’t respect you. They consider that you’re not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz
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Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
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Then I’m going?” Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss,” Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited
Brandon MullBrandon Mull Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
Bill CondonBill Condon I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King When you’re a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don’t want to know.
Ben AaronovitchBen Aaronovitch Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
Barbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
Barry LopezBarry Lopez To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on.
Banana YoshimotoBanana Yoshimoto Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters
