Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

No one's body is up for comment. No matter how small, how curvy, how round, how flat. If you love you, then I love you.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I've realized I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to love me.