The Four Agreements Quotes by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
We have curated a list of the best quotes from the book “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom”. Let’s get a look at quotes.
The Four Agreement is a self-help and personal development book which is written by Mexican authors Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills. This book offers a code of conduct claiming to be based on ancient Toltec wisdom that supports freedom from self-limiting beliefs and according to them, self-limiting can cause suffering and limitation in a person’s life.
The book was published in 1997 and since then it has sold 9 million copies in the united states only. Also, it has been translated into 46 languages worldwide. After getting endorsed by Oprah Winfrey the book’s popularity got another height.
Okay, we talked a lot about the book now let’s get into the list of The Four Agreements Quotes.
Best Quotes From “The Four Agreements” Book:
1. “The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best. ”
2. “If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
3. “Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
4. “If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
5. “I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
6. “God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, “Thank you, God,” is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive at the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
7. “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
8. “If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self-pity, suffering, and tears.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
9. “Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
10. “But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
11. “There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
12. “You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
13. “Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
14. “Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
15. “Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
16. “It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
17. “True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
18. “Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
19. “What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
20. “The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
21. “We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
22. “You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
23. “Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
24. “Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
25. “Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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Wrapping up
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Sourabh Sharma is a hobbyist book reader, Entrepreneur, and a literature student at Delhi University. A blog writer by day and a book reader by night, he is oathed to discuss himself in a third person but can be persuaded to do so from time to time.
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