Top 87 Victoria Moran Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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#3. Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
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#4. As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better. (341)
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#5. Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.
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#6. In fact, just heading toward veganism lifts a not insignificant burden from the earth. According to food pundit Michael Pollan, who's not a vegetarian, if everybody did even "Meatless Monday," it would be the environmental equivalent of taking 20 million midsize cars off the road.
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#7. Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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#8. Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
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#9. 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)
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#10. 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)
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#12. 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)
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#13. You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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#14. When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)
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#15. 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)
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#16. Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)
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#17. I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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#18. I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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#19. Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.
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#20. 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)
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#21. What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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#22. We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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#23. 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)
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#24. I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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#25. Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.
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#26. The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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#27. [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)
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#28. 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.
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#29. I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
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#30. 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)
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#31. Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.
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#32. Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)
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#33. My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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#34. Growing into your future ... 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.
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#35. I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
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#38. Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.
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#39. I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.
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#40. Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)
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#41. Life has its rhythm and 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.
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#42. What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.
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#43. 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)
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#44. Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.
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#45. On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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#46. You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)
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#47. By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
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#48. Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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)
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#51. Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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#52. Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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#53. Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.
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#54. [T[his isn't just "another day, another dollar." It's more like "another day, another miracle." (213)
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#55. I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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#56. I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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#57. I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)
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#58. I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.
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#59. Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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#60. Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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#62. That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.
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#63. 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)
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#64. I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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#65. 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)
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#66. There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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#67. If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.
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#68. Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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#69. I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.
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#70. I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.
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#71. If you give a small child a bunny and an apple, and she eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a car.
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#72. 'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
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#73. Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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#74. Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a slingshot.
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#75. The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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#76. You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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#77. If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck
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#78. Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet ...
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#79. In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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#80. Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.
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#81. I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.
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#82. 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)
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#83. My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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#84. Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.
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#85. Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.
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#86. Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.
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#87. When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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