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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

Victoria Moran

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Victoria Moran
Age: 54
Writer
Celebrate
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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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.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them.
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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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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.
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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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You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.
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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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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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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)
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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.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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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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I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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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)
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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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Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.
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