The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Miguel Ruiz

We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough.

We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally. Take a moment to consider the truth of this statement.

We assume they are going to do what we want, because they know us so well. If they don’t do what we assume they should do, we feel so hurt and say, “You should have known.”

Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don’t really like them.

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.