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.

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.

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

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.

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.

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?

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.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

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.

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

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In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just “Take care and play the game smart.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

God's timing is rarely our timing.

Really, I don't like roller coasters.

There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.