Four Agreements Quotes

“What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“Manipulation gets people to do something they aren't likely to do if given the opportunity to think.

Appeals to emotion are some of the easiest methods of manipulation, because strong emotions can cloud our minds while also getting us to act.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“When you have character, you hold yourself accountable to yourself.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“Living an authentic life means your thoughts and actions will be consistent, no matter what happens, because they agree with who you are.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life – when the real you comes out, when you don’t care about the past and you don’t worry about the future. You are childlike.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“Direct, honest, straightforward communication is kind. Sidestepping the truth doesn’t serve anyone involved.”
― Gina Senarighi, Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples

“To guide our actions toward others, we need only look at our own reactions to different experiences.

If we don’t like it when someone steals our belongings, then we shouldn’t take what doesn’t belong to us.

The same approach works when we consider our reactions to people gossiping about us, cheating us, or assaulting us.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“We are where we are, not where we might have been. We fix the problem starting from this spot, not from where we’d like to be.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“We are the sum of our parts. We are not just our good qualities, but also our bad ones. We aren’t just our failures, but our successes too.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life