Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.

You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul - to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing. They feel it. It hurts them. It kills them.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.