Top 200 Vironika Tugaleva Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “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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103. “There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.”

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104. “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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105. “They say, “Look before you leap.” So look. But do not look for too long. Do not look into the void of uncertainty trying to predict each and every possible outcome, to evaluate every possible mistake, to prevent each possible failure. Look for the opportunity to leap, and leap faster than your fear can grab you. Leap before you talk yourself out of it, before you convince yourself to set up a temporary camp that turns into a permanent delay on your journey into your own heart.”

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106. “This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.”

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107. “When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to – a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.”

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108. “Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless we use it to build a fire.”

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109. “In our thoughts, we hold the key to our feelings. In our minds, we hold the key to love.”

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

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112. “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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113. “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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114. “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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115. “Human beings are not separate from nature. We are nature. The beauty of the sunset is your own beauty. The power of the ocean is your power. We are inseparable from the beauty of the mountains, rivers, and forests that surround us. The more that you can allow your natural self to come out – to honour your natural beauty, your natural creativity, your natural thirst for leadership and compassion – the happier and healthier you’ll be.”

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116. “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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117. “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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118. “To be courageous, we must be willing to surrender our perfectionism, if only for a moment. If my self-worth is attached to being flawless, why would I ever try to learn anything new? After all, learning requires mistakes.”

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119. “There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.”

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120. “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.”

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121. “The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.”

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122. “Each wave that rolls onto the shore must release back to the ocean. You are the same. Each wave of action you take must release back to the peace within you. Stress is what happens when you resist this natural process. Everyone needs breaks. Denying this necessity does not remove it. Let yourself go. Realize that, sometimes, the best thing to do is absolutely nothing.”

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123. “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.”

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124. “A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don’t believe everything you think.”

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

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126. “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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127. “Taking responsibility for yourself is about self-care, not self-repair. Once you learn to feed yourself, you will better understand your hunger. Maybe.”

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128. “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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129. “I believe that the best leadership is loud authenticity. That is what the world needs now. We don’t need more plastic, Photoshooped perfection. I don’t want people to look at me and wish they could be me. I want people to look at me and see their own potential. I want people to be more accepting of their own failures, imperfections, and struggles because they watch me accept of my own.”

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130. “Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.”

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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. “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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133. “When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes you on a downwards spiral, while the other upwards. One breeds toxic patterns, the other awareness. The choice is yours.”

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134. “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.”

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

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136. “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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137. “Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.”

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138. “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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139. “Think of a wave: it washes onto the shore, and then it rolls back. Likewise, each of your activities has a backside of stillness. To be with people, you must be alone. To listen, you need silence. To exercise, you need rest. You do not need to inflict rest, silence, or aloneness. You can simply surrender to your existing urges for these essential actions.”

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140. “Fly blindly, trust is full of magic. Let your wild voice guide the way.”

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141. “Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.”

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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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.”

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145. “Don’t let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you’re meant to be today.”

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146. “I believe that the most tragic war of our time is the one within – a war between what we knew as children and what we’ve learned as adults. A war between wisdom and intelligence. A war between the natural colour of our hair and the colour we chemically impose upon it. A war between the manicured hedges and the untouched wilderness. A war between reality and fairy tales. A war between what we could learn about the world and what we are systematically taught. A war that can end in peace.”

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147. “There’s nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There’s nothing stronger than vulnerability. There’s no better time than now.”

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

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149. “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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150. “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.”

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