Top 100 Ruiz Quotes
#1. Gennia is eating and talking to Ruiz on the phone. Each time he takes a mouthful, he catches a whiff of his shirt, which stinks of failure and yesterday.
Michael Robotham
#2. What if I become a lawyer?' 'Please don't do that,' says Ruiz. 'Why not?' 'They're like monkeys who get dressed up and fling poo at each other.
Michael Robotham
#3. I served with that son of a bitch, Corporal. Ruiz wouldn't compliment his mother for giving birth to him, if you know what I mean.
John Scalzi
#5. I'm not gonna box Ruiz ... I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.
James Toney
#6. If you're working a fight with let's say John Ruiz and ... anyone and Ruiz goes jab, jab and grab, you better see whose landing the punches before it becomes a wrestling match.
Harold Lederman
#7. I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
Emmanuelle Beart
#8. if Pedro is talking?" Ruiz didn't say anything. "They might be tracking his cell. The hitter
Tyler Dilts
#9. Someone will love you, Miss Ruiz. Even if you're a jerk." "Fuck you, Reed," she sobbed.
C.J. Roberts
#10. What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.
Miguel Ruiz
#11. The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#12. To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#14. You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#15. It's not true for the plants or the animals. It's not true for the stars or the trees, or for the rest of nature. It's only true for humans.
Miguel Ruiz
#16. If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#17. You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#19. If we are selfish and we feel cranky, then we believe that nobody has the right to be happy around us.
Miguel Ruiz
#20. When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#21. A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values and rules with which to regulate a culture or society
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#22. Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? ... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#24. She doesn't have anyone. For reasons we cannot comprehend, the Good Lord doesn't always reward us during our lifetime.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#25. I am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.
Miguel Ruiz
#26. people call magic is power in action." "Action!
Miguel Ruiz
#27. Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#29. Every book, every volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#31. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.
Miguel Ruiz
#32. It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe what they say
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#33. So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#34. When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Don Miguel Ruiz
#36. You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#37. I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#38. Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#39. What I'm searching for is the opposite of an intellectual, in other words, someone intelligent.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#40. Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#41. Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#42. You're one of those people who fall off a tree and never quite reach the ground.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#43. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#44. Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#45. When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.
Miguel Ruiz
#46. Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#47. And may you live to see it,' said Fermin, as he signalled to the siren from Calle Escudillers to start displaying her wares.
I saw her caress the old man with infinite delicacy,
kissing the tears that fell down his cheeks.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#48. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#49. Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#52. It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#53. Instead of doubting yourself, have faith in yourself. Instead of doubting the truth, doubt the lies. Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
Miguel Ruiz
#54. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that." Professor
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#55. What you are is a force
a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream ... You are life
Miguel Ruiz
#56. 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
#57. It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#58. Today, clean our hearts of any emotional poison that we have, free our minds from any judgment so that we can live in complete peace and complete love.
Miguel Ruiz
#59. They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#60. We looked at each other in the half-light, searching for words that didn't exist.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#61. In the shop we buy & sell them, but in truth books have no owner.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#62. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#63. Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#65. For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.
Miguel Ruiz
#66. I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died ... or worse.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#67. Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#68. The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself
Miguel Ruiz
#69. You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#70. Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#71. Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#72. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#73. The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#74. He held an unlit cigar in his mouth and had more hair in each eyebrow than most people have on their entire head.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#75. Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#76. I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then went out.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#77. The echo of voices and old radios rose through these canyons of poverty, but only as far as the rooftops. The voice of the Raval never reaches heaven.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#78. We feel like acting like a Christian, following the steps of Christ, is much more important than following a doctrine.
Isabel Ruiz Lucero
#79. Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#80. Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.
Miguel Ruiz
#82. Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#83. If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#84. The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#85. Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next.
Miguel Ruiz
#86. There was another silence, of the kind in which gray hairs seem to creep up on you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#87. We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#88. We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#89. Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.
Miguel Ruiz
#90. In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#91. Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#92. We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#93. I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth.
"How does one choose a single book among so many?"
Isaac shrugged his shoulders.
'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person ... destiny, in other words.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#94. I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#95. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#96. Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others. You no longer rule your behavior according to what others may think about you. You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you, either.
Miguel Ruiz
#97. You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#98. I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#99. But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.
Miguel Ruiz
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