Top 200 Vironika Tugaleva Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

102. “Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To reduce stress, find a job you love. To resolve conflict, be patient and peaceful. These are very, very simple in that they are complete concepts that take no more than a sentence to say. They are not, however, easy, because they must be applied consistently.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

103. “The greatest potential we have for opening our hearts lies in the opening of our minds.”

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104. “Trying to fix ourselves while pretending to love ourselves doesn’t work. We don’t heal through objectification. We heal through understanding. We need to feel appreciated by the people who help us – ourselves included.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

105. “The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.”

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106. “When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.”

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107. “Sometimes the most important conversation we can have is with the waves of the ocean or the dewdrops on a blade of grass. Sometimes the easiest way to love yourself is to realize that you are all these things. You are everything you’ve ever loved.”

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108. “The more you’ve struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today’s struggle brings tomorrow’s wisdom.”

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109. “He who believes in soul mates never ceases to doubt if his current partner is, truly, “The One.” As a result, the great irony emerges: those who believe in soul mates are much less likely to actually find one.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

110. “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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111. “Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.”

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112. “The truth is staggering, colossal, unfathomable, so we cling to our bite-sized lies. We organize knowledge into bulleted lists and line graphs while the wisdom of the present moment sits patiently at the doors of our perception. Tackling.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

113. “I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.”

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114. “Each moment of self-honesty builds intimacy, trust, and compassion. The more you look, the more you’ll love.”

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115. “Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.”

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116. “The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.”

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117. “One particularly harmful idea carried by our cultural narrative is that you need to find someone who will love you. Imagine if we believed this about any other basic need: food, water, oxygen. If you needed another person to provide you with those, you’d be considered dependent – if not disabled. Yet we so willingly put ourselves in this state with love.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

118. “A butterfly does not wonder how it can stop being a caterpillar. It simply feels some feeling from within that tells it: isolate yourself in this cocoon and grow within it. It trusts that feeling. When it comes out, it is radiant and beautiful. All the little bug did was follow its nature. You are no different.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

119. “Eyes which feast on the beauty of the world will always look beautiful to others. That which receives beauty exudes it as well.”

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120. “We all dream of being exactly what we are – powerful, beautiful, and worthy.”

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121. “Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today – whether they kill you or enthrall you – won’t be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity.”

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122. “As you dig your teeth into your assumptions, your teeth become sharper. You can dig deeper. You become what the world needs simply by helping yourself. It’s not easy, but it is worth it. The truth, as they say, hurts. But they also say it sets you free.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

123. “Fall open. Break open. Sit with others’ openness. Let love be your medicine.”

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124. “Before we can influence the inner conversation, we must first drift to the sidelines and watch it for a little while.”

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125. “Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.”

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126. “A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.”

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127. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

128. “If you do not let yourself be seen, you cannot see.”

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129. “Sometimes “No” is the kindest word.”

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130. “Hope for the future lies in each of us looking within. By learning to feed your hunger, you can overcome the tempting illusions all around you. By discovering who you are, you can stop basing your self-image solely on other people’s ideas about you. By connecting to your inner strength, you can stop cycling between idealistic illusions and self-hating disillusionment. By taking responsibility for yourself, you can stop relying on others to take responsibility for you.”

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131. “I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.”

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132. “The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.”

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133. “Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

134. “We label to help us understand reality better. Yet reality remains undivided. Even.”

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135. “Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.”

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136. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

137. “The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulness and my own self-appreciation.”

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138. “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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139. “Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.”

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140. “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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141. “Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.”

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142. “As I think of myself, so I shall be.”

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143. “Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don’t ever give up.”

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144. “There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness on the level we are different, and trying to become different on the level we are the same. Peace is a matter of recognizing what is already there, not creating something new.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

145. “To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world.”

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146. “Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.”

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147. “No tree tries to become a certain kind of tree. No flower tries to become a certain kind of flower. The tree and the flower open up to the sun and soak up water. Thus, they grow into themselves. No judgment. No expectations. No commentary. Your task is the same. If you can stop trying so hard to become who you think you should be, and instead commit to understanding and nourishing yourself, you will bloom into whatever kind of person you are.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

148. “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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149. “When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.”

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150. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva