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“Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true. Your opinion comes from your beliefs, your own ego, and your own dream.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“If others feel they have to change you, that means they really don't love you
just the way you are. So why be with someone if you're not the way he or she wants you to be?”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others. Because we think everyone else will judge us, victimize us, abuse us, and blame us as we do ourselves. So even before others have a chance to reject us, we have already rejected ourselves. That is the way the human mind works.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom