Victoria Moran
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.Collection: Intelligence
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Diet
I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.Collection: Diet
I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Diet
Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.Collection: Yoga
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.Collection: Mindfulness
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.Collection: Heart
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Beauty
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)Collection: Commitment
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.Collection: Life
Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.Collection: Years
Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.Collection: Attention
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.Collection: Acceptance
Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.Collection: Commitment
Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.Collection: What Matters
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.Collection: Caring
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.Collection: Calling
If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruckCollection: If Only You Knew
Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Self Esteem
If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Fun
The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.Collection: Horse
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.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Opportunity
Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Spiritual
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.Collection: Two
"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."Collection: Color
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?Collection: Thinking
I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.Collection: Mountain Ranges
When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.Collection: Begets
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.Collection: Queens
I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.Collection: Cuffs
I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.Collection: Live Life
Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.Collection: Dieting
Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a slingshot.Collection: Slingshots
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.Collection: Animal
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.Collection: Fun
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)Collection: Magazines
Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.Collection: Adventure
Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.Collection: Compassion
Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Children
Tell the world you are a one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.Collection: Joy