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To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)Victoria Moran
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Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)Victoria Moran
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Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour. .Victoria Moran
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In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)Victoria Moran
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A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with–that’s poverty–but how efficiently we can put first things first... . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)Victoria Moran
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Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t, ’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)Victoria Moran
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Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn’t conscious; it’s Pavlovian. (13)Victoria Moran
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[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268)Victoria Moran
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I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)Victoria Moran
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You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)Victoria Moran
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The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a particular story is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance. It invades the privacy of men and women who didn’t give up being human when they became famous, and it negates the meaning inherent in our own lives. (300)Victoria Moran
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If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it–through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.Victoria Moran
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We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment. .Victoria Moran
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It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)Victoria Moran
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You know how we’re thinking about food these days, less in terms of carbs and calories than in terms of color, vivacity, and life force? We can do the same with time. Then it’s no longer about having enough of it but about infusing color and vivacity and life force into every moment. (279)Victoria Moran
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Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right—and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)Victoria Moran
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If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)Victoria Moran
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When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)Victoria Moran
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I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.Victoria Moran
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In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you’re just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless. (418)Victoria Moran
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It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)Victoria Moran
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When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)Victoria Moran
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You're swimming in a sea of abundance.Victoria Moran
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[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)Victoria Moran
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At forty-three, I bought my first house. I’d wanted one like crazy. A house meant family, a happy childhood for my litttle girl and for the little girl self inside me... . I was soon overwhelmed by the upkeep and overcome by the yardwork... . In the bright light of closing, it was obvious: it was never a house I wanted; it was what a house symbolized to me. (254)Victoria Moran
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In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way thatdeflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra.Victoria Moran
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Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)Victoria Moran
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Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)Victoria Moran
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- Judge less—or at least later.- Give new ideas and images a chance.- Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.- Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.- Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260)Victoria Moran
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A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)Victoria Moran
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Simplicity is NOT boring. Simplicity is not self-denial. It is an indulgence, providing you with a wealth of time and space. Simplicity IS discerning the essential from the unessential. Simplicity is having room for the unexpected. It is savoring life. Most of all, simplicity is freedom: It's freedom to choose what you want in your life because you're not letting in everything that shows up. It's freedom to do what you want because you're not already committed to more obligations than you can handle and the maintenance of more objects than you'll ever use.Victoria Moran
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Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)Victoria Moran
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.Victoria Moran
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'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree, ' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'Victoria Moran
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Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.Victoria Moran
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.Victoria Moran
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Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.Victoria Moran
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.Victoria Moran
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.Victoria Moran
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It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.Victoria Moran
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.Victoria Moran