Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

It's always important to be yourself.

Always try to be yourself.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

Learn what you are and be such.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

Be that self which one truly is.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.