Top 200 Vironika Tugaleva Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

2. “You’re already stuck with yourself for a lifetime. Why not improve this relationship?”

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3. “If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

4. “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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5. “Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.”

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6. “Beautiful isn’t something you become. It’s something you realize you are.”

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7. “Self-love is not the process of ignoring your flaws. Self-love is expanding your awareness to include your flaws and your strengths.”

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8. “All love begins with the love within.”

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9. “What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else?”

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10. “Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.”

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11. “You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.”

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12. “To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do.”

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13. “Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted.”

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14. “Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.”

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15. “Trust yourself. Let self-awareness be your science. Let self-discovery be your research. Let your intuition be your expert. Let your endless curiosity be your teacher. And, above all, find out what makes you smile. That is the most important study you can ever undertake.”

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16. “A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.”

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17. “Instead of labelling your emotions as problems to solve, you can see them as signals to interpret. Instead of judging your desires as shameful aberrations, you can learn to meet them in healthier ways. Instead of calling yourself critical names when you cannot build or break certain habits, you can explore your motivations. You can become a student of yourself rather than always seeking a wiser teacher.”

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18. “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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19. “Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication.”

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20. “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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21. “Whether we are becoming more anxious or more loving, everything takes practice, and everything starts with one thought.”

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22. “Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.”

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23. “Remember that when things don’t go according to plan, they go according to truth. No matter how painful the reality, it is reality nonetheless. There is dignity in facing the truth without trying to cut it down to a more manageable size. There is honour in acceptance.”

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “Unconditional love goes beyond holding on and letting go. Real love is about truth. It’s about looking at what’s really going on instead of the stories we tell ourselves about it. It’s about being able to love someone from afar, when we need to, because we see that closeness turns us into the worst versions of ourselves.”

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27. “You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.”

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28. “Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow.”

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29. “Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.”

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30. “Don’t let your fear of criticism suffocate your leadership potential. Once you begin to speak your truth, you will discover the people who have been waiting for someone exactly like you. Until you speak up, all you need is the faith that they exist. And I promise you: they do.”

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31. “When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to under-stand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?”

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32. “Within you is a fountain of wisdom. And you sell yourself short every time you allow some authority to define your limitations and cage your potential. Even if that authority lives in your head.”

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33. “A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.”

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34. “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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35. “Self-understanding is a lifetime endeavour. It is not a weekend seminar. It does not come in capsule form.”

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36. “If someone else notices our qualities and talents, we think those parts of us must be worthwhile. Our potential floats like an island in the sea – uncharted, unexplored. We long for someone to discover us, admire us, colonize us. But why must it be another person? Why can’t you sail that voyage and explore yourself?”

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37. “Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.”

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38. “Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is – what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence?”

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39. “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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40. “When curiosity is an end in itself – a perspective, a viewpoint, a way of life – then it fuels an easy, egoless, playful relationship between ourselves and the world around us.”

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41. “In today’s world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don’t want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the world of emotions, but rather in the world of thoughts.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

42. “The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain.”

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43. “It’s not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one.”

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44. “You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn’t another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don’t need to be fixed. Maybe, what’s really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.”

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45. “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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46. “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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47. “The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul.”

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48. “No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and the happiness you deserve, that is not a risk. To waste the time you have in this body, never showing your soul to yourself or anyone else, living in fearful misery – that is really the most dangerous thing you can do.”

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49. “Leave your hair natural. Let your beard grow out. Leave the makeup in the bag. Wear comfortable clothes. Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy. Let the mask break open. Let it lie on the floor. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself see.”

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50. “A child does not decide to be open-minded. As a self-aware adult, you make conscious choices. You earn back your right to be free, to play, to exist without struggling.”

— Vironika Tugaleva