More from Miguel 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 I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham 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.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz Life is like dancing…changing all the time.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
Miguel Angel RuizMiguel Angel Ruiz
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And in the end when the money is gone – will you still stay it was worth it.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby My soul speaks a language, only you can understand.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale In another life, you kept your word, and forever’s still ours for the taking.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Journey with struggle becomes a great tale in the future.
Carla StokesCarla Stokes I’m not asking that you take the bullet for me. I wish you’d shoot first.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery A rainy day is the perfect excuse to explore deeper feelings.
Emily BockEmily Bock Stop taking care of everyone else before you take care of yourself.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson Music is a weed, we all fallen souls are high on.
Ananya BhaskarAnanya Bhaskar
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More on adults
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 Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
Baden Powell de AquinoBaden Powell de Aquino
