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Quotes by Ukrainian Authors
"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."
"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
"You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn't another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don't need to be fixed. Maybe, what's really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework."
"Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would."
"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."
"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."
"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
"When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then we can love. When we can look at the greatest of atrocities and see the opportunity for healing within, then, and only then, can we really love."
"There are few things more powerful than people united. What they unite over is not what matters. ... The most important aspect is remembering our existing connection, and, through that, allowing ourselves to feel at peace."
"Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine."
"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."
"We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don't give up. Find out what you're made of."
"Leave your hair natural. Let your beard grow out. Leave the makeup in the bag. Wear comfortable clothes. Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy. Let the mask break open. Let it lie on the floor. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself see."
"The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom."
"Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself."
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
"There are few things more powerful than people united."
"Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving forward and doing my best for the Thrashers."
"To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all."
"People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!"
"We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self."
"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."
"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."
"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
"You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are."
"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
"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."
"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."
"At the end of the day, we all crawl, exhausted, to some doorstep. Some crawl to the doorstep of their new home, the one they have sought for miles without giving up their goal, exhausted by their determination. And others crawl to the doorstep of their prison, the one they have sought to escape, but gave up, exhausted by their determination. And we all enter our new home with a sigh of relief and put our feet up. Some rejoice. Others grow bitter. And yet, we are tired just the same."
"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
"Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out."
"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."
"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
"And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results."
"I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew."
"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."
"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."
"It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else."
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