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

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

— Vironika Tugaleva

A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.

— 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

A leaf does not resist the breeze. A goose does not resist the urge to fly down south. Is this not happiness? Is this not freedom? To access this incredible state, we need only one thing: Trust. Trust that, when you are not holding yourself together so tightly, you will not fall apart. Trust that it is more important to fulfill your authentic desires than listen to your fears. Trust that your intuition is leading you somewhere. Trust that the flow of life contains you, is bigger than you, and will take care of you - if you let it.

— Vironika Tugaleva

All love begins with the love within.

— 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

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

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

As I think of myself, so I shall be.

— Vironika Tugaleva