Top 100 Vironika Tugaleva Quotes
#2. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.
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#4. To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.
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#5. I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.
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#6. Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are.
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#7. The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and unshakable happiness.
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#9. Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says "come hither" to be reason enough to go.
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#10. We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves.
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#11. No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience.
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#12. Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.
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#13. Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted.
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#15. Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living - in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.
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#16. I've experienced the feeling of about a dozen different drugs simply from a good conversation. I think, more often than not, that's why people get addicted. They want a high that's available only if they overcome their fear of connecting to others.
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#17. We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul.
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#18. Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.
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#19. The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them.
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#20. There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.
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#21. When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.
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#23. If I say, "I am weak," I ensure that I stay weak. If I say, "I cannot," "I'm not the type to," "I am not able," then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.
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#24. The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.
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#25. We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.
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#26. Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.
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#27. The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.
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#28. To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.
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#30. We feel good when we hear about how powerful we are because we are pure power.
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#31. In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.
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#32. In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.
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#33. The reason most relationships fail isn't because we haven't found the right person. It's because we haven't found ourselves and we're hoping someone can fill that void for us. They can't. No one can. Self-love is and always will be a prerequisite to every happy romance.
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#34. Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.
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#35. We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.
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#36. If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us.
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#37. The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.
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#38. The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror to their inner substance.
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#39. It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action.
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#40. In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
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#41. Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.
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#42. The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow.
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#43. Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed.
Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid.
Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.
Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.
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#44. When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover's eyes.
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#45. Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.
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#46. The most important freedom is freedom from your own self-judgment.
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#47. If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.
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#48. In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing.
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#49. It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.
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#50. The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.
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#51. When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
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#52. If the most connected we've ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we'll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.
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#53. The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.
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#54. Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.
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#55. I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.
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#56. A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.
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#57. It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too.
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#58. There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.
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#59. When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.
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#60. Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.
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#61. Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.
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#62. In our thoughts, we hold the key to our feelings. In our minds, we hold the key to love.
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#63. Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself.
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#64. It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart.
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#65. It is only because we seek love as if it lives outside of us that we miss it, again and again.
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#66. Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.
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#67. Compassion is essential, but it's not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.
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#68. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.
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#69. Letting go of who you're supposed to be and discovering who you really are is a journey of many experiences, but certainty is not one of them. No matter how long you wait, it'll never feel safe enough. Plunge in anyway.
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#70. An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.
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#71. Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world.
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#72. I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.
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#73. The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.
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#74. Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.
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#75. Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.
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#76. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
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#77. Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.
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#78. It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.
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#79. If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it's a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded.
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#80. Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening.
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#82. Love, happiness, peace - these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything.
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#83. If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.
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#84. When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.
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#85. While we tend to think of love as some faraway place, it is actually a place nearby that we have forgotten.
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#86. We all have an inner intuition for authenticity, for matched up internal and external truth. When we detect this, we feel immediate comfort. We know truth when we hear it.
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#87. Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk - essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.
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#88. We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place.
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#89. Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.
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#90. This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.
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#91. The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.
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#92. Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.
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#93. The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.
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#94. The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.
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#95. One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.
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#96. Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.
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#97. You'll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.
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#98. Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself.
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#99. It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.
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#100. There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.
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