Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.