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Inspiring Quotes

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We are so busy blaming one another for our hunger that we forget the simple solution. We forget to feed ourselves. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Remember that when things don't go according to plan, they go according to truth. No matter how painful the reality, it is reality nonetheless. There is dignity in facing the truth without trying to cut it down to a more manageable size. There is honour in acceptance. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

One thing is for sure—you will make mistakes. Learn to learn from them. Learn to forgive yourself. Learn to laugh when everything falls apart because, sometimes, it will. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us—a wall that keeps love out. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

There is a difference between helping people and helping people buy. There is a difference between showing people their potential and selling them on a dream. There is a difference between nourishing people’s authentic desires and reinforcing their most tempting idealisms about the nature of reality. There is a difference between a guide and a guru. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Any change in our perception of others can only be temporary unless we also change how we perceive ourselves. The shelves of our bookstores are lined with advice about marriage, romance, and long- term commitment. There are workbooks, checklists, and practical guides. These are all well and good, but if our most long-standing relationship with our best-known human is not in good shape, no lists or guides will help. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

A person who doesn’t understand flowers might tug on them to make them grow. A person who doesn’t speak the language of someplace might misread the locals’ sentiments and intentions. Yet you are already such a flower, and your inner locals—your emotions, your body, your thoughts—are already speaking to you. If you don’t learn the language of your experience, then how can you understand yourself? How can you help yourself? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

It is not until you learn to look at yourself through the truth of who you are that you can look at someone else. When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

When we recognize ourselves as a part of nature, we start to care about nature’s survival as much as we care about our own. When we perceive ourselves as members of a unified human race, we start to care about other people. When we embrace the world as an extension of ourselves, we start to love it. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

No matter how difficult it is to secure a positive change, avoiding it is much more difficult in the long run. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is 'Will this last forever?' We so often assume that the answer is 'Yes.' But nothing lasts forever. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Consumerism relies on make-believe. We buy fad diets and get-rich-quick schemes because we mistake fantasy for truth. We suffer manipulation through blindness more than force. We don’t understand ourselves, so we believe stories about who we are and what we need. All the while, our needs go unmet. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

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. Like rotten fruits on a tree, unpleasant emotions tell us there is something wrong. A pain in the heart is just like a pain in the gut: it is the result of having consumed something awful. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Within you is a fountain of wisdom. And you sell yourself short every time you allow some authority to define your limitations and cage your potential. Even if that authority lives in your head. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Whether we are becoming more anxious or more loving, everything takes practice, and everything starts with one thought. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Most people will either use logic to analyze you or empathy to relate to you. It is a rare breed of person who can do both. Yet for each of us, such a person lives in the mirror. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

The future of our personal, spiritual, and communal development lies in our expanding awareness of our connection to one another, to the Earth, and to all that exists. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

The curiosity with which you ponder the people you love assumes that they’re worth exploring. Do you presume the same about yourself? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To understand people, listen. To develop confidence, take action. To stop worrying, let go. To become joyful, do things you love. These are 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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

It is almost as if we are all playing a game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide, expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the seeker. We stand behind the wall, at first excited, then worried, then bored, then anxious, then angry. We hide and hide. After a while, the game is not fun anymore. Where is my seeker? Where is the person who is supposed to come find me here in my protected shell and cut me open? Where is that one who will make me trust again, make me comfortable, make me feel whole? Some people rot on the spot, waiting for a seeker who never comes. The most important truth I can relate to you, if you are hiding and waiting, is this: the seeker is you, and the world, behind so many walls, awaits. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Only peace, not triumph, can end a war. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

It is only because we seek love as if it lives outside ourselves that we miss it, again and again. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Before I started my healing journey, I always thought happiness was only a few pounds away. No matter how much weight I lost, it was never enough. No matter how much my stretch marks faded, they were never light enough. No matter how many blemishes healed, there was always one more. Every time I looked in the mirror, I’d say, 'Maybe next time.' Maybe next time, you’ll be pretty. Maybe next time, you’ll be perfect. Maybe next time, you’ll finally be flawless. Not today, but maybe next time. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

If we assume that comfort comes from outside ourselves, we will search for it in clothes and TV shows, labels and facts, bread and sugar. But once we find comfort within, we stop searching. The same goes for love, understanding, acceptance. When we think these things come from other people, we become addicted to approval and attention. When we discover our own potential to be the lover and the beloved, we stop grasping for others’ reactions. We find completion within ourselves. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

We cannot heal judgment through judgment. The only way out is through understanding. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

We throw away real people searching for the perfect person the same way we throw ourselves away searching for our perfect self. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

In my isolation, I dreamed of power. My day-dreams and fantasies were all about how I could win, how I could be number one, how I could have my cake and eat it too. When those dreams were fulfilled, I felt nothing. The love-sized hole within me grew larger and larger as I died by my own hand, by my own mind. Then, I found what I needed to fill the hole. I found peace, joy, connection. To power, I waved goodbye. I thought being a loving, spiritual person meant sacrificing that triumph-hungry drive within. For much too long, I ignored these urges, believing them to be the opposite of love while I cycled in and out of love awareness. The day my love mindset became truly durable was when I realized that love is not the opposite of power. Love is power. Love is the strongest power there is. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Your relationship with yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

Your inner conversation decides the quality of each moment in your life; and beyond the quality of each moment, what else is there? What else matters? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

The answers are not in any book. You must find them within yourself. Experiment. Run with your hunches, learn from the feedback, and keep a glass of doubt nearby. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

I found myself face to face with reality—the view I’d been avoiding all along. And reality was as it always had been: without meaning. Reality was neither ugly nor ravishing. It was neither joyful nor depressing. It was neither good nor bad. It was neither endless suffering nor endless progress. It was not even something in-between. Reality was the raw data I hadn’t analyzed, the full dictionary I hadn’t turned to speech, the endless night sky before I chose a favourite star. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

A hungry person is easier to seduce. What are you hungry for? What have you been craving for so long that you’ve settled for insufficient scraps disguising as real nourishment? What have you desired so much that you’ve allowed success stories and unrealistic claims to cloud your judgment? And whom have you trusted to feed your hunger for you? Have they done what is best for you, or have they done what is best for themselves? And whose job is it, at the end of the day, to look out for what is best for you? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

You cannot control the emotions, thoughts, or memories that torment you, but you can control how you choose to respond to them. And if you don’t respond as planned, you can control your response to that failure. You can meet your disappointments with acceptance and curiosity instead of judgment and criticism. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

What looks like a flaw to one person looks like radiant beauty to another. What is embarrassing to one is authentic to the next. What is funny to some is offensive to others. For everything you want to fix about yourself, there is someone who will accept it. And for everything you love about yourself, there is someone who would want you to change it. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Like a cat left in a room with balls of yarn, maybe you have twisted yourself into a mishmash. This was never your fault, but now, it is your responsibility to untangle this multicoloured mess. It’s a big, frustrating job. As you try to unwind one string, it drags dozens of others along with it. But bit by bit, piece by piece, you will make progress. You will unravel. You will heal. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself

When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

In the end, the most important thing I have learned is this: my inner experience, even when it shows up to me in the plainest English, is always open for interpretation. My mind already translates my self-communications—with or without my consent. And I can choose to be an active participant in that translation process. I can choose to understand instead of pretending to know. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Once you feed your hunger, you will better understand your symptoms of starvation. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

A blade of grass sticks straight up. When the wind comes, it bends. The stronger the wind, the more it bends. When the wind eases, however, the blade straightens. It continues by returning, goes forward by coming back. Like this, you can allow your mind to fill with ideas, and then allow it to empty of them. This quote is by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Masks are addictive. On every bus stop billboard and during every commercial break, we see images of who we should be. These, in turn, lead us to ask the wallet-emptying question: 'How can I become what I should be?' We try. We buy. But every time we think we’ve reached perfection, it eludes us again. Every time we think we’ve crafted the perfect mask, it cracks. We see a so-called flaw. We see a so-called flawless person. We panic. We buy, buy, buy. We spend all our earnings and energy on trying to fix ourselves—trying to get our fix of worthiness. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Each moment of self-honesty builds intimacy, trust, and compassion. The more you look, the more you’ll love. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

When we’re trying to fill a love-sized hole, it doesn’t matter what we’re trying to stuff into it: drugs, money, alcohol, approval, sex. If it’s not love, it won’t truly satisfy us. We’ll keep wanting more and more. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

What if you allowed your childhood curiosity to re-emerge from underneath layers of adult know-how? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

You are the world's foremost expert on yourself. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

There's a reason it takes multi-million dollar budgets to sell carbonated drinks, while water sells without a marketing team. The truth endures. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Solitude makes me strong. Then, I bring that strength to my relationships. I don’t need to resist my desires or other people’s wishes. I can accept the validity of everyone’s journeys—including my own. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Compassion doesn’t need to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness doesn’t imply friendship or intimacy. Understanding why someone hurt us doesn’t mean we must keep letting them do it. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Some people engage in retail therapy, buying new things to make themselves feel more secure, and others engage in knowledge therapy, amassing new ideas to make themselves feel like they know something. We consume for comfort. We rely on certainty to shield us from the pain of confusion. 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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

When we listen to ourselves with callous objectivity—trying to diagnose and eradicate our problems with effective solutions—this “listening” rarely works. Think of the people who treat you this way: those who can’t see beyond their labels and judgments of you. Those who only “listen” for long enough to decide which advice to give you. It feels horrible. This same attitude prevents us from hearing our inner conversations. When we feel like someone has an agenda, we resist. 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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Your emotions are trying to tell you something. Are you listening? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

To pacify your external conflicts, you must wage peace, first and foremost, within yourself. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

You have been searching for answers, but you are the answer. You have been looking for the path, but you are the path. You have been working on the perfect mask, but you already have such a beautiful face. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Self-understanding is a lifetime endeavour. It is not a weekend seminar. It does not come in capsule form. Every moment is ripe with opportunities to understand yourself better. Yet the moment is empty-handed. You are the source. The potential for awareness exists in every moment because it exists, first and foremost, inside you. You are the one with an inner conversation waiting to be deciphered. You are full of ingredients waiting to be cooked into tantalizing flavours. You are waiting to be experimented with. A chemical reaction waiting to happen. A story waiting to be told. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Who can see inside the deepest recesses of your imagination and manifest those wishes into your daily experience? Who can appreciate the subtle nuances of character you’ve acquired by overcoming your deepest fears? Who can acknowledge the demons that are no longer controlling you because of the work you’ve done to release them? Who can see the strength left behind in the wake of your toughest struggles? Who will see you for who you are—appreciating everything that is there, everything that is not, and everything that can be—if you do not? Who else can? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Will we allow opposing ideas to lie down with the ones we believe are true? Or will we treat every piece of evidence that conflicts with our beliefs as an enemy attacker? Until we make a purposeful effort to do the former, we will unconsciously continue to do the latter. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Looking at ourselves honestly can be overwhelming. Observing other people’s unedited reactions to us can be humiliating. But ignorance comes with its own price, whether or not we acknowledge paying it. Discomfort is crucial to self-observation. Our inner mirrors, like our inner windows, can be dirty or clean. Every ounce of truth you drink from the present moment washes away your assumptions. Awareness strips you naked. It hurts, but it also heals. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

No matter where we go, having a best friend to laugh and cry with makes all the difference. Such a friend is irreplaceable. There will always be someone funnier, sexier, stronger, richer, but no one can take the place of our memories, our jokes, our secrets whispered in the night. You can develop this kind of intimacy with yourself. After all, you’re already stuck with yourself for a lifetime. Why not improve this relationship? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Look. Look within—not with an agenda but with curiosity. Look with love. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

A truth seeker doesn’t put spices on each moment before tasting it and thus knows reality’s many flavours. Even the bitter. Even the sour. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Even if there was a universally correct choice you could make in every situation, you could never know if you’d made it. Uncertainty hugs our every decision like the stratosphere hugs the Earth. It is as crucial a part of human existence as oxygen. You can never become smart enough to erase all doubt, so why try? Throw out your pens. Write your answers in pencil. Keep an eraser nearby. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

So listen, watch, wonder. Relish the stars dancing in the sky above you. Let each moment show you who you are and why you are here. Stay humble. Stay open. And don’t forget to laugh at yourself once in a while. No one will understand you, except the ones lying in the grass beside you, laughing at the same incomprehensible stars. And that, my friend, will be a life well lived. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

How can I understand better? You could ask this question hundreds of times every day for the rest of your life, and it would not be too much. The more you practice this, the less you will feel like you know; yet the closer you will be to the truth. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

To live how you feel is right takes the same effort as to live how you’re told is right. The work is the same. What is different is the reward. No amount of approval and no size of achievement can ever fill the space reserved for your opinion of yourself. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

I believe that the best leadership is loud authenticity. That is what the world needs now. We don’t need more plastic, Photoshopped perfection. I don’t want people to look at me and wish they could be me. I want people to be more accepting of their flaws, mistakes, and struggles because they are inspired by how I accept my own. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

When we feel a hole widening within us, we scramble to fill it. We work so hard to avoid feeling empty, but emptiness is essential. Allow that hole to widen. Let it eat you alive. The void is as important as the fullness. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

To find the answers to your questions, you must break free of your assumptions. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Those who cling to their cocoons will criticize how you use your wings. Let them. Keep flying. Poem by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Don't let your fear of criticism suffocate your leadership potential. Once you begin to speak your truth, you will discover people who have been waiting for someone exactly like you. Until you speak up, all you need is the faith that they exist. And I promise you: they do. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

When I'm triggered, I think, this will last forever. Or, what if this lasts forever? I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, it'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you? My power lies in these choices. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Self-understanding is a lifetime endeavour. It is not a weekend seminar. It does not come in capsule form. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

A person who doesn’t understand flowers might tug on them to make them grow. A person who doesn’t speak the language of someplace might misread the locals’ sentiments and intentions. Yet you are already such a flower, and your inner locals—your emotions, your body, your thoughts—are already speaking to you. If you don’t learn the language of your experience, then how can you understand yourself? How can you help yourself? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Before you can go anywhere, you must accept where you are. Only the journey that begins with self-acceptance can end with sustainable self-improvement. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

You have been working on the perfect mask, but you already have such a beautiful face. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Solitude is essential. To be with people fully, we must first be alone. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

The less you demand to know, the more you will understand. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

They say, you can be limitless, but this cannot mean limiting ourselves to only the positive, joyful, pleasant parts of life. True limitlessness includes everything, warts and all. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless you use it to build a fire. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Sometimes, all you need is a moment of silence. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

The number one obstacle to happiness is the belief that someone else needs to tell you how to find it. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

You do not need to wait for someone else to notice your talents before nourishing them. You do not need others to accept you to feel accepted. You do not need to wait. You can begin, at any moment, to work on noticing, nourishing, and accepting yourself. You can work on being a better friend to your reflection. You can start listening to yourself like you wish other people would. You can become curious about who you are. You can begin to learn the language of your mind and body so that you can decode it, understand it, speak it. You can work on understanding yourself, instead of always trying to make yourself into someone else. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Those who hurt you were blind. Forgive them, so that you don't become blind too. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Once you feed your hunger, you'll better understand your symptoms of starvation. This can lead to profound self-forgiveness. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Accept what was so you can embrace what is. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

There is a difference between helping people and helping people buy. There is a difference between showing people their potential and selling them on a dream. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Sometimes we have to get lost before we can find ourselves. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Sometimes, breaking down is the bravest thing you can do. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

People need you to love them, not fix them. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Learn to listen to yourself (politely). Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

What if you explored yourself with the same wild curiosity that you'd explore a lover? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

The most important thing is for me to feel #love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Be real whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Have you ever had a friend whose mere presence could put you at ease? Where just seeing that face made you feel like everything was going to be okay? Well, that's all self-confidence is, really. It's just a nice feeling that comes from being friends with yourself. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Freedom is a state of mind. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

We must tell ourselves stories to survive. That, we cannot change. We can, however, change the kinds of stories we choose to keep on our shelves and re-read year after year. That is the power of self-awareness. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Poem by Vironika Tugaleva.

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva. — “It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.” ~Vironika Tugaleva, How to Support Someone through Tough Emotions (Including Yourself).

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Self-discovery changes everything, including your relationships with people. When you find your authentic self, those who loved your mask are disappointed. you may end up alone, but you don’t need to stay alone. While it’s painful to sever old connections, it’s not a tragedy. it’s an opportunity. Now, you can find people who understand the importance of looking for truth and being authentic. Now you can find people who want to connect deeply, like you’ve always wanted to, instead of constant small talk and head games. Now you can have real intimacy. Now, you can find your tribe. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from The Art of Talking to Yourself.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

“Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Self-judgment is a kind of prejudice. And prejudice only thrives when we have two-dimensional labels for people, instead of real experiences of them. Experience yourself. Set yourself free. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

If you do not let yourself be seen, you cannot see. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

The past has a way of becoming the future, if you don't let it go. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Compassion does not need 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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

When we are hiding, we project our self-image onto others. Like this, we miss who they are. We miss who we are. When we are being authentic, we reflect our own self-love in others. Like this, we become mirrors for human potential. We unearth the truth. We unleash love. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Life is a conversation with yourself. And who are you if not the eternal presence behind everything that is, was, and will be? Like this, the blow of each breeze and the beauty of each sunset can teach you about yourself, if you listen. If you hear. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Self-confidence, happiness, joy, inspiration—these aren’t things that you get one day and that’s that. These are side effects of the constant, continual process of self-discovery, of reinvention, of ceaselessly throwing yourself back into the arms of uncertainty, emerging on the other side with the direct experience of your own potential. And there’s no way to experience those in your comfort zone. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence? Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

What if we all stopped fighting to belong and realized that we already do? What if we acknowledged, in each interaction with ourselves and with others, the eternal, beautiful interconnected energy that flows between us? What if we recognized our equality and celebrated our differences? Imagine how the world could be. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

I do not need (or want) to be told I am doing something right. I know I am doing something right, because I feel it. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

You cannot love someone you don’t know. In the end, that’s why so many people in our society don’t love themselves, or each other. Not because they don’t try, but because they don’t know themselves. Once you find who you are—who you really are—love is the only option. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Your mind is a gateway to love, healing, and happiness. It is up to you to open the gates. Only you can set yourself free. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

You are not the summary of your rehearsed poses. You are not a gently lifted eyebrow or a coy smile. You are beautiful and, most importantly, real. Poem by Vironika Tugaleva.

Sometimes 'No' is the kindest word. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Let yourself face your demons. Love them, but don't believe them. Then, you will not need to let go. They will get up and leave. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

You'll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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 emotions. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from The Art of Talking to Yourself.

Before you go about changing your habits and chasing after your goals, learn to listen to yourself as politely as you would listen to another person. That is the secret of making changes last and making dreams come true. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed. Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid. Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter. Love me only for my soul, and I will grow. Poem by Vironika Tugaleva.

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

I step into my greatness when I step out of what's familiar. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

There are, literally, thousands of people all around the world who need nothing more than to meet someone just like you. To spend your time pretending to be someone else is just as senseless and fear-driven as spending your time speaking to people who don’t understand you. Find your tribe. Let yourself be seen. You are already someone’s hero. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

The outside world can only trigger or block your experience of your true nature. Each time something beautiful takes your breath away, that’s you experiencing yourself. Each time you fall in love with someone, that’s you experiencing yourself. Each time a child’s smile gives you unspeakable joy, that’s you experiencing yourself. Your true nature is beautiful. Life is the art of rediscovering yourself, again and again, in different forms, celebrating, rejoicing, welcoming. You are beautiful. You are life itself. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva from her book The Love Mindset.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

No one is too poor to give a smile—a gift often of greater consequence than any sum of money. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

Being happy where you are does not mean that you must unquestioningly accept parts of your environment that don't serve you. Where you are is inside of this amazing body, this beautiful moment, this capable mind. Where you are is inside of an eternal opportunity. And sometimes you need to change your environment to remember that. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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. Quote by Vironika Tugaleva.

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