Top 200 Vironika Tugaleva Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

152. “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

153. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

157. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

158. “Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

159. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

160. “To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find common ground with someone who has been awfully isolated are not acts typically met with fireworks and swelling violins. More often than not, they are pushed away. To love, really love, is to do them anyway.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

161. “Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

162. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

163. “Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

164. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

165. “You matter. You’re not broken. You’re stronger than you think.”

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166. “To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

167. “The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

168. “All around us is an uninterrupted monologue that breeds self-doubt.”

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169. “We don’t heal through objectification. We heal through understanding.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

170. “Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws and quirks, snorts and hurts, triggers and tears? Anything else is not love. It is idealization. And, as long as you do it to yourself, you will do it to everyone. You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

171. “We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

172. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

173. “Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

174. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

175. “I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what’s familiar.”

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176. “To be hurt is, sometimes, a lucky thing – a fortunate interruption along a road that otherwise may have ended in blindly hurting others. When we heal from being hurt by a person, we realize the importance of not hurting people. Perhaps it is not the most fun way to learn this lesson, but it is a method of life’s teachings nonetheless.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

177. “The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings – and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

178. “While we tend to think of love as some faraway place, it is actually a place nearby that we have forgotten.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

179. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

180. “Any piece of advice comes with some risk of creating dependence. What we can do is add trust to the mix so it can neutralize the addictive impulses.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

181. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

182. “Within, you hold a tiny piece of eternity, a fraction of life, a mirror of the universe.”

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183. “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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184. “There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.”

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185. “You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can’t become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can’t earn your own ears. You can’t become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You’re already everything you’ve ever wanted to be.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

186. “As you engage in daily self-nourishment, you will become less vulnerable to promises of quick fixes and magical solutions. A well-fed person is hard to seduce.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

187. “When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.”

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188. “The sooner we heal our traumas, the sooner we liberate ourselves from the people who hurt us. By hating them, we hold onto them. We cannot heal.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

189. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

191. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

192. “Amazing relationships aren’t about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They’re about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it’s hard.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

193. “Most people spend their lives doing one of two things to their emotions: numbing or venting. Self-loving people do something very different – they accept each emotion as a piece of communication and they try to decode it. This way, emotions can become important guideposts on the journey of self-discovery, rather than annoying roadblocks.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

194. “Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

195. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

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197. “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

198. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

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200. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva