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Category: Victoria Moran

Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)

Simplicity is NOT boring. Simplicity is not self-denial. It is an indulgence, providing you with a wealth of time and space.Simplicity IS discerning the essential from the unessential. Simplicity is having room for the unexpected. It is savoring life.Most of all, simplicity is freedom: It’s freedom to choose what you want in your life because you’re not letting in everything that shows up. It’s freedom to do what you want because you’re not already committed to more obligations than you can handle and the maintenance of more objects than you’ll ever use.

freedom, inspirational, simplicity

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

aging, aging-well, growing-older, life, living-longer

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

aging, aging-gracefully, growing-older, predictability

• Judge less–or at least later.• Give new ideas and images a chance.• Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.• Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.• Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260)

aging, aging-well, openness, youthfulness

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

life, memory, past

You’ll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

aging-well, application, reading, younger

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

beauty, convenience, walking

[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather 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. (267-268)

aging, aging-well, beauty, care, dedication, grace, health, self-care

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)

aging, media, society, women, youth-culture

If you’ve ever tried meditation and didn’t stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)

discipline, meditation, patience, practice, prayer

Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t,’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)