Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

People are more easily induced to do, and do more easily, what they are already used to; but people also learn to do things new to them.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an alcoholic for the first 10 years of the marriage, and they say they are never going to change.

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

How much of you is repetition?

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Habit had made the custom.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

Acceptance is the road to all change.

You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"