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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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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Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.

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