Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Quotes

#1. We don't "crave" animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#2. Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#3. Feeling anger is necessary; it's what we do with anger that will make or break us.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#4. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#5. One life matters - especially to the one whose life it is.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#6. It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#7. Choosing to laugh doesn't undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#8. There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I'm vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#9. They're not fat pigs; we're mad scientists.

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#10. What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#11. May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#12. Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren't doing anything at all?

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#13. How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau