Vladimir Azizov

Throughout my life, I tend to play the role of gray eminence staying in the background while managing to be the one who remains at the heart of all the action and makes the decisions.

It’s always interesting to find out what a person wants. Using certain approaches one can convince anyone of anything. What’s most important here is not to limit one’s freedom — it arouses fear.

Love is the sum of benefits you get in return for responsibilities.

Responsibilities mean limits. One day comes the time for the real feelings to become a compensating power to balance the restrained freedom.

Absolute freedom involves a lot of work, and obtaining it must become the primary goal of one’s life.

I’ve learnt to distance myself from Moscow pace of life. I can join the flow or step out of it depending on the situation. My path goes along the main flow in a shape of a zigzag.

“Bunker-shell” is my favorite way to spend a holiday. I shut the curtains, lock the doors, turn off the phone and plunge in solitude. I may spend a week at home relaxing to the full, reading favorite books and watching favorite movies. All of this makes me feel reborn.

A human is both his/her own best friend and master.

My credo is at least one good deed per day.

It’s terrible children in Africa should be starving, but they are too far from us to get our personal help.

There are charity funds and UN missions to solve their problems. What you should be worried about in the first place is helping the people who surround you. Look around.

Depression is a way to escape reality. Depression is feeling pity for oneself. People often think: ‘I have to do this and that, but I’m never gonna get it, it’s never gonna work out’. Under no circumstances should one pity oneself, otherwise it means one accepts his weakness.

The purpose of life is to organize your work in a way that would gradually turn leisure and enjoyment into your main activities.

One becomes miserable once he/she starts feeling restrained and inhibited.