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“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

“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.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

“How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is thousands of times. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. If justice exists, then that was enough; we don’t need to do it again. But every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again, and again, and again. If we have a wife or husband he or she also reminds us of the mistake, so we can judge ourselves again, punish ourselves again, and find ourselves guilty again. Is this fair?”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
― Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in they year, if you will do two things at a time.”
― Earl of Chesterfield

“Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
― Lord Chesterfield