Kris Carr quotes:

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!

If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness.

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That's it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they're not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that.

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

How can you begin to uncover whether gluten sensitivity is causing some of your health issues? Symptoms occur shortly after eating gluten and improve or disappear within hours or days after gluten is withdrawn. Symptoms return again if gluten is reintroduced.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.

I'm a leftover junkie.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

We're so conditioned to believe that milk does a body good and that we need enormous amounts of protein or we'll wither away. Look around, we're not withering - we're fat.

If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.

We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.

Gut health is the key to overall health.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

You don't have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover!

If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.

Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.

The gaunt, unhealthy vegan is the muffin vegan. Bread and fries and processed veggie dogs. It's like, 'Hello? Did you eat your vegetables?'

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

If you really want to turn your health around, start juicing today.

I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

Change your plate. Change your fate.

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

When you're the conscious captain in your kitchen, you'll feel better mentally and physically.

Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto and the love that she put into her cuisine but ditched the ingredients that bought her a one-way ticket to arthritis, diverticulitis, and a host of other inflammatory conditions. I also ditched my own addictions and compulsions around food.

Are the people in your life inspiring you or tiring you?

Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.

Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Cancer is very chaotic.

Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

For nearly a decade now, I've been teaching others how to thrive by filling their bodies with energizing vitamins, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. Not a day goes by when someone doesn't write me to say, "Thanks, I feel better now, too." Those letters from my readers are my digital cardinals.

I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

I cherish my work and all of my readers.

I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.

If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage.

Itâ??s not about finding your voice, itâ??s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

Life is just to sweet to be bitter.

Love is healing. Love is comforting. Love is holy. Food can be all those things, too.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

No matter how you feel, you made progress today.

Quite literally, your gut is the epicenter of your mental and physical health. If you want better immunity, efficient digestion, improved clarity and balance, focus on rebuilding your gut health

Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.

Stress is not...a badge of courage

The goal isn't to be restrictive or tight about what passes through the altar (your mouth) and into the temple (your body). It's to create sustainable and consistent energy for every deserving cell in your body. That, my friends, is true love.

The only time you can change someone is when they are in diapers.

We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think.

We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.

We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, in exactly this moment, we shift from living for tomorrow to appreciating today.

When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.

When weâ??re courageous enough to be with what scares us, we can awaken our intuition and create a new path for healing.

You are amazing. A true light warrior and this world certainly needs you.

The fact is, we need help and we need each other.