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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."
"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."
"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
"Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine."
"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."
"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."
"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 sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region."
"We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self."
"Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would."
"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."
"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."
"I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew."
"People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!"
"Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself."
"If the most connected we've ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we'll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives."
"There are few things more powerful than people united."
"The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected."
"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."
"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
"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."
"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."
"Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk."
"The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings-and sometimes, that has to be at a distance."
"We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don't give up. Find out what you're made of."
"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 Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions."
"It is almost as if we are all playing a big 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 him, make me comfortable, make me feel whole? Some people rot on the spot, waiting for the seeker that never comes. The most important truth that I can relate to you, if you are hiding and waiting, is that the seeker is you and the world, behind so many walls, awaits."
"You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are."
"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."
"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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