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Quotes by Ukrainian Authors
"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
"To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all."
"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."
"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."
"Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine."
"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."
"People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!"
"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."
"Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk."
"We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don't give up. Find out what you're made of."
"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region."
"The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected."
"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."
"We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self."
"Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive."
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
"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."
"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."
"My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club."
"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person."
"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."
"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
"Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film."
"To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You want to fix yourself, change yourself, become someone better. But what about who you already are? You want to craft a mask to wear-something to cover your face. But you already have a face. You are already something. Your task, as a human being, is not self-augmentation, but self-discovery. Look at yourself with curiosity. Let yourself explore your interests. Delve into your talents. Face your fears. Accept your faults, and give yourself unconditional love.By learning to explore yourself, you will naturally become the best version of yourself. Of course, you invent your life, but you do not invent your passions. Some things, you must create, and others you must discover.Learn to be curious about yourself. Then, you will be on the right path."
"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."
"We all dream of being exactly what we are " powerful, beautiful, and worthy."
"I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew."
"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."
"It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else."
"Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection."
"You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are."
"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."
"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."
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