Top 200 Vironika Tugaleva Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

102. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “Only you can allow yourself to explore the person in the mirror. Only you can coax yourself into a daring adventure to find your untapped potential.”

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108. “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

109. “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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110. “You have never been flawed. You have never been broken. Rather, you have misunderstood yourself.”

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111. “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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112. “You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.”

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113. “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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114. “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

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

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116. “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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117. “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.”

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118. “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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119. “Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.”

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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “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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125. “Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.”

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “Love, happiness, peace – these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything.”

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129. “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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130. “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

131. “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

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

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134. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

135. “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

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

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

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “Sometimes “No” is the kindest word.”

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143. “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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144. “Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren’t doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

145. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

146. “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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147. “Peace is life. Love is life. No river holds a grudge against a rock in its path. No leaf refuses to blow in the breeze. No plant denies water or sunshine. We, as human beings, have the gift of self-awareness, but this gift quickly turns to self-destruction if we do not learn to use it. We must learn to turn our minds towards the peace and love that we are flowing within at any given moment. This is the key to serenity. This is The Love Mindset.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

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149. “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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150. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva