It’s not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one. - Vironika Tugaleva
I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar. - Vironika Tugaleva
Eyes which feast on the beauty of the world will always look beautiful to others. That which receives beauty exudes it as well. - Vironika Tugaleva
The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and unshakable happiness. - Vironika Tugaleva
Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it. - Vironika Tugaleva
The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice. - Vironika Tugaleva
The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are. - Vironika Tugaleva
In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself. - Vironika Tugaleva
You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are. - Vironika Tugaleva
Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine. - Vironika Tugaleva
Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough. - Vironika Tugaleva
If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are. - Vironika Tugaleva
Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall. - Vironika Tugaleva
You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe. - Vironika Tugaleva
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice. - Vironika Tugaleva
Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Taking care of yourself isn’t about trying to become perfect. It’s about realizing and honouring,in every moment, thatyou already are. - 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
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. - Vironika Tugaleva
At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later. - Vironika Tugaleva
Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others. - Vironika Tugaleva
If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do. - Vironika Tugaleva
Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication. - Vironika Tugaleva
To help people, love them. Then, they help themselves. - Vironika Tugaleva
There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question. - Vironika Tugaleva
The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now. - Vironika Tugaleva
To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do. - Vironika Tugaleva
In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience. - Vironika Tugaleva
The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
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. - Vironika Tugaleva
No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think. - Vironika Tugaleva
We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don’t give up. Find out what you’re made of. - Vironika Tugaleva
Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal. - 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. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Sometimes "No" is the kindest word. - Vironika Tugaleva
Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless we use it to build a fire. - Vironika Tugaleva
I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence. - Vironika Tugaleva
Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
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
Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are. - Vironika Tugaleva
If you do not let yourself be seen, you cannot see. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would. - Vironika Tugaleva
Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today. - Vironika Tugaleva
I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain. - Vironika Tugaleva
The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they’ll teach you what you don’t want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness. - Vironika Tugaleva
Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher. - Vironika Tugaleva
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. - 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. - 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? - Vironika Tugaleva
Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. - Vironika Tugaleva
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. - Vironika Tugaleva
To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all. - Vironika Tugaleva
We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew. - Vironika Tugaleva
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. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away. - Vironika Tugaleva
You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be. - Vironika Tugaleva
To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you. - Vironika Tugaleva
When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Self-love is not the process of ignoring your flaws. Self-love is expanding your awareness to include your flaws and your strengths. - Vironika Tugaleva
You do not need any more strength. You need only to realize how strong you already are. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted. - Vironika Tugaleva
There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
Love, happiness, peace - these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything. - Vironika Tugaleva
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. - Vironika Tugaleva
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
Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all. - Vironika Tugaleva
A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don’t believe everything you think. - Vironika Tugaleva
Our minds thirst for anything that reminds us of the deepest wisdom of the soul. - Vironika Tugaleva
Fly blindly, trust is full of magic. Let your wild voice guide the way. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option. - 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. - Vironika Tugaleva
Happiness isn’t about pretending there’s no pain. It’s about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience. - Vironika Tugaleva
Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door. - Vironika Tugaleva