Top 200 Vironika Tugaleva Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

152. “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

153. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

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156. “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

157. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

158. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

159. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

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161. “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

162. “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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163. “In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.”

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164. “Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.”

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

171. “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.”

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

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173. “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

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

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

176. “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

177. “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

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

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

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180. “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

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

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182. “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

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

185. “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

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

187. “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

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

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

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190. “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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191. “There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.”

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192. “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

193. “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

194. “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

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

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196. “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.”

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197. “I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.”

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198. “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.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

199. “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.”

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200. “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