The Fifth Agreement Quotes

“You are here just to be, for no reason. You have no mission except to enjoy life, to be happy. The only thing you need is just to be the real you. Be authentic. Be the presence. Be happiness. Be love. Be joy. Be yourself; that’s the main point. That’s wisdom.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“I respect you when I don’t try to tell you how to live your life, how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how to do whatever you do in your kingdom.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world. Almost all of our conflicts are based on this, and it’s easy to understand why. Assumptions are nothing more than lies that we are telling ourselves. This creates a big drama for nothing, because we don’t really know if something is true or not. Making assumptions is just looking for drama when there’s no drama happening. And if drama is happening in someone else’s story, so what? It’s not your story; it’s someone else’s story.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Even the worst thing that can happen to you is meant to happen because it’s going to push you to grow.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”
― don Jose Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement

“Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn’t you.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Be responsible for every choice you make in your life. This is your life; it’s nobody else’s life, and you will find that it’s nobody else’s business what you do with your life.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Is it really true that you’re not perfect just the way you are? Can you see all the judgments that you have about yourself? Every judgment is just an opinion — it’s just a point of view — and that point of view wasn’t there when you were born. Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it. You learned the opinions from Mom, Dad, siblings, and society. They sent all those images of how a body should look; they expressed all those opinions about the way you are, the way you are not, the way you should be. They delivered a message, and you agreed with that message. And now you think so many things about what you are, but are they the truth? You see, the problem is not really knowledge; the problem is believing in a distortion of knowledge — and that is what we call a lie. What is the truth, and what is the lie? What is real, and what is virtual? Can you see the difference, or do you believe that voice in your head every time it speaks and distorts the truth while assuring you that what you believe is the way things really are? Is it really true that you’re not a good human, and that you’ll never be good enough? Is it really true that you don’t deserve to be happy? Is it really true that you’re not worthy of love?”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“We want our freedom; we want to be ourselves, but we are also afraid to be by ourselves.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.”
― don Jose Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement

“Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Once you are aware that you’re dreaming, you recover your power to change the dream whenever you choose.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Our attention is in the moment; we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past.”
― Jose Luis Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement

“During your whole life you practiced every moment to become what you believe you are right now. You practiced until it became automatic. And when you start practicing something new, when you change what you believe you are, your whole life is going to change. If you practice being impeccable with your word, if you don’t take anything personally, if you don’t make assumptions, you are going to break thousands of agreements that keep you trapped in the dream of hell. Very soon, what you agree to believe will become the choice of your authentic self, not the choice of the image of yourself that you thought you were.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves, because we can never live up to our image of perfection.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist’s work — but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“What is real we cannot change, and it doesn’t matter what we believe.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“We can only think in a language that we master.”
― don Jose Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement

“The only person who needs to be concerned about the story of you is you.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Awareness makes all the difference.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Every human is a magician, and in the interaction between the magicians, there are spells being cast everywhere. How? By misusing the word, by taking everything personally, by distorting everything we perceive with assumptions, by gossiping and spreading emotional poison with the word. Humans cast spells mainly upon the people we love the most, and the more authority we have, the more powerful the spells.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“When religions describe the dream of hell, they say it’s a place where we burn, a place where we are judged, a place of eternal punishment. Well, that description of hell is the ordinary dream of the humans. That very same thing is happening in the human mind — the judgment, the guilt, the punishment, and the emotions generated by fear that feel like a fire burning inside us. Fear is king of the underworld, and it rules our world by creating the distortions in our knowledge. Fear creates the whole world of injustice and emotional drama, the whole nightmare that billions of people are living in.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“the mastery of transformation is the process of unlearning what you have already learned. You learn by making agreements, and you unlearn by breaking agreements.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“During your whole life you practiced every moment to become what you believe you are right now.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Truth or fiction, you don’t have to believe anyone’s story. You don’t have to form an opinion about what someone says. You don’t have to express your own opinion. You don’t have to agree”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“When we find out that Santa Claus isn’t the truth, we no longer believe in Santa Claus, and the power we invested in that symbol returns to us. This is when we become aware that we are the one who agreed to believe in Santa Claus.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery