Quotes by Ukrainian Authors - Page 117

The biggest mistake people make when trying to be authentic is just that: they try. They see these role models of what an "authentic" person is supposed to look like or act like, and they try to emulate that. Authenticity isn't about what things appear to be. It's about allowing things to be what they are. Authenticity is about getting away from hiding, from wearing a mask, from always asking, "How should I act? What should I say? What will people think?" That includes asking, "How should an authentic person act? What would a genuine person say?"Being authentic isn't about making yourself a certain way. It's not even about finding out what you "really" enjoy as opposed to what other people enjoy, or who you "really" are as opposed to who other people are. Authenticity is allowing your likes, dislikes, personality, appearance, hobbies, and beliefs to be fluid, to change, to evolve as you learn, grow, and experience the world.At its core, authenticity is the practice of surrendering the tiresome task of keeping up appearances and taking up of the lifetime work of allowing what is already within you to come out while you remove as many internal and external obstacles as possible.And who knows what will spill out of you if you just allow it to? Who knows what is within you awaiting recognition, awaiting permission to show itself to the world? Even you don’t know—until you try. Or, rather, until you stop trying. Until you become curious.
Vironika Tugaleva
Compassion and communication are both incredibly important in relationships, but most of us use these at the wrong time. If we communicate, it's only in times of conflict, allowing repressed emotions and unsaid worries form into their worst phrasings. If we show compassion, it's only in good times, when we're feeling good about one another and don't feel triggered or attacked. What if we changed our approach? What if we showed compassion in conflict—taking the time to listen, understand, help each other release pent-up emotions? And what if we communicated in good times—taking the time to talk about patterns we fall into, triggers we both have, and how we can work together to break our cycles? Then, we would stop helplessly dancing the same old tango of mutual misunderstanding. Then, we could work on giving one another room to feel, to love, and to grow.
Vironika Tugaleva
Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.
Vironika Tugaleva
I believe that the best leadership is loud authenticity. That is what the world needs now. We don’t need more plastic, Photoshooped perfection. I don’t want people to look at me and wish they could be me. I want people to look at me and see their own potential. I want people to be more accepting of their own failures, imperfections, and struggles because they watch me accept of my own.
Vironika Tugaleva
It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.
Sunday Adelaja
We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.
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If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.
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You need to discover something that will impact humanity.
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Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.
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Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value.
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When what you are insulted by meets what you have a strong desire to do, then that would bring you significance.
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It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance.
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A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance.
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When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you.
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When you have discovered your significance, your life will now begin to move towards making a difference.
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Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.
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In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.
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Your purpose is more than just being happy, but it’s about making others to be blessed and happy.
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The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.
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When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.
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You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.
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After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.
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It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.
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To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.
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A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact lives around, the family and in the community or in the society.
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You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance.
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For your life to have meaning is to discover what you are meant to fulfill.
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Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.
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Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.
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Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.
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Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant.
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Each individual needs to be pregnant with the seed of purpose.
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You have to discover what makes you different in your society.
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Find out what you need to do to express your importance.
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The principles of godliness must be ensured to be received by all in the community, city and the nation, even by the young and old.
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What you discover valuable to you can make all the difference in your life.
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Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.
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When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.
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If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.
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Believe that your life is not ordinary and never look down on what you can do to impact a life.
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You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.
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Your voice could go to where your feet could not go.
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Your resources could go to where your hands could not reach.
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Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don’t look down on yourself.
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When it comes to greatness, God doesn’t choose for man.
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As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.
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We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.
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When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.
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All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value.
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We all have some worth but we do not have the same net worth.
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We all have some value but our net value differs.
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Why the world remembers nothing of some certain people, the same world cannot forget some other people the reason is the difference in net worth they were able to build while on earth.
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Every man from his worth can build and increase his net worth.
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Irrespective of where you are, where you were born, what you can do or cannot do, irrespective of your starting capital in life, you can raise your value so high that you are needed for the most important jobs.
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You can be man of great net worth.
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Every man has a starting capital in life and it is called worth or self-worth.
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Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth.
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While you were born with a self-worth and is a gift of God to you to begin your life with, your net worth is what you build here on earth and what you choose to do with the resources and gifts that you have been given.
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You have something already, you have a worth, self-worth.
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We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God.
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