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.
Your mission isn’t a project to check off your list. It’s a commitment to which to dedicate your life.
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
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.
On the issue of abortion, I’m ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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.
I’m not perfect, but what’s wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don’t have to be.
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.
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.
What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it’s impossible to do it wrong.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
I realize that I’m a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I’ll be a little old lady.
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.
Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.