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.

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

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

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Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

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I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

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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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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

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