The Power of Sanctuary

The day the power of love

overrules the love of power,

the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

Kindness, I discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our fate is inextricably linked to the health and

resilience of the earth and our fellow earthlings,

and when these are harmed and made to suffer,

so are we.

Gene Baur

With great power comes great responsibility.

Voltaire

Farm animals are individual beings in their

own right. As such, they deserve our

respect and our help. Who will

plead for them if we are silent?

Jane Goodall

Man can no longer live for himself alone.

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

In compassion lies the world's true strength.

Buddha

I believe that the reson of life is for

each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy

A truth cannot be reached in scripture,

a truth has to be lived in

the innermost temple of your being.

Osho

Just how destructive does a culinary preference

have to be before we decide to eat something else?

If contributing to the suffering of billions of

animals that live miserable lives and, quite often,

die in horrific ways isn't motivating,

what would be?

If being the number one contributor to the most

serious threat facing the planet isn't enough,

what is? And if you are tempted to put off

these questions of your conscience,

to say not now, then when?

Jonathan Safran Foer

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary

of God in this world.

Suzanne Curchod

The animals of the world exist

for their own reasons.

They were not made for humans

any more than black people

were made for white,

or women created for men.

Alice Walker

All were happy - birds, insects and children.

But grown-up people never left off cheating and

tormenting themselves and one another. It was

not this spring morning which they considered

sacred and important, not the beauty of God's

world, given to all creatures to enjoy -

a beauty which inclines the heart to peace,

to harmony and to love. No, what they

considered sacred were their own devices

for wielding power over each other.

Leo Tolstoy

Remember, the entrance door

to the sanctuary is inside you.

Rumi

Pick Me Vegans & Ex Vegans

Few people are capable of expressing with

equanimity opinions which differ from

the prejudices of their social environment.

Most people are even incapable of

forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

We are haunted by the horror of what we do

to animals, but we are equally haunted by

the knowledge of how unhaunted others are.

J.M. Coetzee

Life is a process of becoming,

a combination of states we have to go through.

Anaïs Nin

If you don't stick to your values when

they're being tested, they're not values:

they're hobbies.

Jon Stewart

The hottest places in hell are reserved for

those who, in times of great moral crisis,

maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

People's opinions are mainly designed to make

them feel comfortable; truth, for most people,

is a secondary consideration.

Bertrand Russell

When you see a good man, try to emulate

his example, and when you see a bad man,

search yourself for his faults.

Confucius

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

All rivers and some people are crooked because

they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill

To be yourself in a world that is constantly

trying to make you something else is

the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We only become what we are by the radical

and deep-seated refusal of that which

others have made of us.

Jean Paul Sartre

The individual has always had to struggle

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often,

and sometimes frightened. But no price

is too high to pay for the privilege

of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling