It is our hearts, not just our heads,
that demand of us that we overcome,
for them, the habits and forces
behind their systematic oppression.
That requires both our passion and
our discipline. The fate of animals
is in our hands. God grant
we are equal to the task.
Tom Regan
Success is not achieved by the impractical who
merely contemplate, but by the individuals
who face reality head-on and take
purposeful action.
Plato
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths,
we think all is lost, but it's only here
that the new and the good begins.
Leo Tolstoy
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1. Education.
2. Identify Small Goals.
3. Make Room for Failure.
4. Create Small Habits.
5. Replace, NOT restrict.
6. Build Community.
The secret of change is to focus all of your
energy, not on fighting the old,
but on building the new.
Socrates
Do the best you can until you know better.
Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
Once I learned what was happening to animals,
I couldn't not do something. Every single day
I make choices that take them into consideration.
Elaine Hendrix
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard
of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to
be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass
He who has a why to live for
can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Discipline is choosing between what
you want now and what you want most.
Abraham Lincoln
There's so much pain in the world that we
are powerless over, but being party
to animal suffering is not one of them.
Joaquin Phoenix
I often think of alcohol as a genie in a bottle.
It promises everything but eventually
imprisons you in the bottle itself.
Erica Jong
Sugar is the sociopath of foods.
It acts sweet but it's really poison.
Karen Salmansohn
1. Know your why. Make the connection.
2. Transition at your own pace.
3. Whole food plant-based diet.
4. Learn easy GO TO vegan meals.
5. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail (Benjamin Franklin).
6. Don't strive for perfection - it's a learning process.
7. Supplement B12 (& vitamin D in the winter).
8. Keep learning, keep growing.
9. Practice empathy and understanding.
10. Socialize & participate in the vegan community, on/off line.
11. Eat balanced meals.
12. Have fun. Explore!
