🌱 Health is Wealth 💚

The most ethical diet just so happens to be

the most environmentally sound diet and

just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger

I hope that people try veganism for their health,

the animals and the planet. Even one meal

a day can make a difference.

Tabitha Brown

You will never change your life

until you change something you do daily.

The secret of your success

is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

Worthless people live to eat and drink;

people of worth eat and drink to live.

Socrates

We live in imaginary worlds, created by

corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

If ignorance is bliss,

why aren't more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson

People ask me how I look so young; I tell them

I look my age. It is other people who look older;

what do you expect from people who eat corpses?

George Bernard Shaw

Health so far outweighs all external goods

that a truly healthy beggar is happier

than a sick king.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our food should be our medicine and

our medicine should be our food.

Hippocrates

Humans lack humanity, not protein.

Eddie Mah

A healthy man wants a thousand things,

a sick man only wants one.

Confucius

We kill billions of wild animals to protect

the animals that we eat. We are destroying

our environment to feed the animals we eat.

We spend more time, money and resources

fattening up the animals that we eat, than we do

feeding humans who are dying of hunger.

After all the expenses of raising these animals,

we eat them; and they kill us slowly.

And rather than recognize this madness, we

torture and murder millions of other animals

trying to find a cure to the diseases

caused by eating animals.

Mike Anderson

People don't break habits;

they replace them with new ones.

Dr. Phil

It is health that is real wealth

and not pieces of gold and silver.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based,

whole food diet that can expand your life length

and make you an all-around happier person.

Ariana Grande

Being vegan is the right thing for yourself

and for the planet and animals.

Lenny Kravitz

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

The reason I'm vegan?

It started off for health reasons.

The reason I'm vegan now?

Because I don't believe in slavery of any species.

John Salley

Take care of the temple that houses your soul.

A well maintained body allows

the soul to live it's purpose fully.

Mastin Kipp

The Art of Conversation

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes

and but one tongue to the end that we should

hear and see more than we speak.

Socrates

Every word has consequences.

Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

- Speak softly.

- Don't raise your voice. But don't speak too quietly.

- Speak at a medium pace.

- Listen more than you speak. Don't share too much private information.

- Make eye contact. Smile. Use your eyes and body language.

- Don't interrupt others.

- Give people your undivided attention.

- Don't curse.

- Don't use words you don't know how to pronounce.

- Read.

- Study women who you want to be like. Do research the same way an actor does to build a character.

The single biggest problem in communication

is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

Change happens by listening and then

starting a dialogue with the people who are

doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall

One of the most sincere forms of respect is

actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

The more you discipline yourself,

the less you will be disciplined by others.

Napoleon Hill

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to

people who want to feel important. They do not

see the harm that they cause, or they justify it,

because they are absorbed in the endless

struggle to think well of themselves.

T.S. Eliot

People will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but

people will never forget how you made dem feel.

Maya Angelou

Wise men speak because they have something

to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

Strong minds discuss ideas,

average minds discuss events,

weak minds discuss people.

Socrates

If you propose to speak always ask yourself,

is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Buddha

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can tell more about a person by what

he says about others than you can by

what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn

Education: the path from cocky ignorance

to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

Think before you speak, read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

Don't just say that you have read books.

Show that through them you have

learned to think better.

Epictetus

I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless

I can state the arguments against my position

better than the people who are in opposition.

I am qualified to speak only when

I've reached that state.

Charlie Munger

1. Jokes about something that is true and sensitive.

2. Jokes with your opinions that are not positive.

3. Sarcasm that goes too far (if the person does not understand that you're being sarcastic). 

4. Jokes about stereotypes (racial/stereotypes/sexist/groups of people).

5. Vulgar jokes (sexist/sex/toilet humor/swearing).

6. Self-deprecating humor.

7. A badly told joke (storytelling - how the build-up process works. Work with pauses).

Nothing shows a man's character

more than what he laughs at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Opinion is really the lowest form of human

knowledge. It requires no accountability, no

understanding. The highest form of knowledge

is empathy, for it requires us to suspend

our egos and live in another's world.

Bill Bullard

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool

than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid

minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant.

Education and free discussion are

the antidotes of both.

Thomas Jefferson

Listen with the intent to understand,

not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

You should not honor men more than truth.

Plato

To be interesting, be interested.

Dale Carnegie

My point is not that religion itself is

the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist

attacks, but that religion is the principal label,

and the most dangerous one, by which a 'they'

as opposed to a 'we' can be identified at all.

Richard Dawkins

People are taught how to speak,

but their major concern should be

how to keep silent.

Leo Tolstoy

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate,

only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. Your plans. Move in silence.

2. Your finances.

3. Your love life.

4. Someone else's confidential information (malicious gossip).

5. Your drama.

6. Your controversial views (religion, politics, social taboos).

7. Your good deeds.

Three can keep a secret,

if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A fool is known by his speech;

and a wise man by silence.

Pythagoras

In order for the truth to be heard, it must

be spoken with love. No matter how wise

and true a spoken word will not be conveyed

to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

Be on the Right Side of History

 Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,

which is the goal of all evolution.

Until we stop harming all other

living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Edison

Socrates (c. 470-399 BC)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Gautama Buddha (c. 5th to 4th century BCE)

Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

You Don't Have To Be A Genius

There can be no doubt as to which side is right

and which side is wrong, for compassionate

defense of life is a force of good and sadistic

mass destruction of life is a force for evil.

Paul Watson

The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating

animals has been recognized by all mankind

during all the conscious life of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

Wrong does not cease to be wrong

because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy

All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Abolish

Insanity in individuals is something rare -

but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,

it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

Jo Frederiks

'Never again' is not about what others shouldn't

do to us. It is about what we shouldn't do

to others. 'Never again' means that we must

never again perpetrate mass atrocities

against other living beings.

Alex Hershaft

Our grandchildren will ask us one day:

Where were you during the Holocaust

of the animals? What did you do against

those horrifying crimes? We won't be

able to offer the same excuse for

the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

Albert Schweitzer

As long as man continues to be the ruthless

destroyer of other living beings he will never

know health or peace. For as long as men

massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent

creatures there can be no peace, no liberty,

no harmony between people. Slaughter

and justice cannot dwell together.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

As long as there are slaughterhouses

there will be battlefields.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm in favor of animal rights as well as human

rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

Animals are the main victims of history, and

the treatment of domesticated animals

in industrial farms is perhaps

the worst crime in history.

Yuval Noah Harari

Man's inhumanity to man is only

surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

George Bernard Shaw

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable

network of mutuality, tied in a single garment

of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,

affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man is a creature of the age in which

he lives and few are able to raise themselves

above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

One day the absurdity of the almost universal

human belief in the slavery of other animals

will be palpable. We shall then have

discovered our souls and become

worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

🪷 Write Your Own Story 🦋

The most important relationship we can all have

is the one you have with yourself, the most

important journey you can take is one of

self-discovery. To know yourself, you must

spend time with yourself, you must not

be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself

is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

The stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

Humans think in stories, and we try to

make sense of the world by telling stories.

Yuval Noah Harari

A season of loneliness and isolation

is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

Mandy Hale

If you're lonely when you are alone,

you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is a gift to not fit in. It sets you on a journey

of finding a sanctuary within yourself.

Brianna Wiest

Modern man lives under the illusion that he

knows what he wants, while he actually wants

what he is supposed to want. In order to accept

this it is necessary to realize that to know

 what one really wants is not comparatively

easy, as most people think, but one of the most

 difficult problems any being has to solve.

It is a task we frantically try to avoid

by accepting ready-made goals as though

they were our own.

Erich Fromm

We pursue external goals

to hit an internal emotional target.

Mastin Kipp

I don't know what your destiny will be,

but one thing I know: the only ones among you

who will be really happy are those

who sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

The person who follows the crowd will usually go

no further than the crowd. The person who

walks alone is likely to find himself in places

no one has ever seen before.

Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single

intelligent man to the thoughtless approval

of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

It's not the events of our lives that shape us,

but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins

1. Write down and practice your values.

2. Build a practice of contemplation.

3. Read. Expose yourself to people who had deeper thoughts than you.

- Leave room for the unexpected.

- Find your unique way to contribute to someone's life.

- Set interesting goals and challenge yourself. Never stop learning.

- Slow down to appreciate what you already have.

- Fill your free time with meaningful hobbies.

Do not spoil what you have

by desiring what you have not;

remember that what you now have

was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

One has to choose between living one's own life,

fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out

some false, shallow, degrading existence that

the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Oscar Wilde

Life isn't about finding yourself or finding

anything. Life is about creating yourself

and creating things.

Bob Dylan

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de tvingar dig att gå

där du inga fotspår

har att lita på.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de gör all skam till din.

Du får söka tillflykt

lite längre in.

Det som hela världen dömer

reder sig ibland rätt väl.

Fågelfri var mången,

vann sin egen själ.

Den som tvingas ut i vildskog

ser med nyfödd syn på allt,

och han smakar tacksam

livets bröd och salt.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

när de bryter bort ditt skal.

Verklighet och kärna

blir ditt enda val.

Karin Boye

💣 Unpopular Opinions & Controversial Figures 🔥

Freethinkers are those who are willing to

use their minds without prejudice and

without fearing to understand things that

 clash with their own customs, privileges,

or beliefs. This state of mind is not common,

but it is essential for right thinking.

Leo Tolstoy

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way,

you may as well not say it at all

because people will not trouble themselves

about anything that does not trouble them.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who are able to see beyond

the shadows and lies of their culture

will never be understood, let alone

believed, by the masses.

Plato

Free thinkers will always seem crazy to

those who can't see beyond conventions.

Never apologize for evolving

beyond people's comfort zone.

Albert Einstein

The task is not, so much to see what no one has

seen yet; but to think what nobody has thought

yet, about that which everybody sees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

Injustice results as much from treating unequals

equally as from treating equals unequally.

Aristotle

Wise men learn more from fools

than fools from the wise.

Cato The elder

The minority is generelly formed by those who

really have an opinion, while the strenght

 of the majority is illusory, formed by 

the gangs who have no opinion.

Soren Kierkegaard

It's easy to stand in the crowd

but it takes courage to stand alone.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

The question is not whether we will be extremists,

but what kind of extremists we will be. For hate

or for love? For the preservation of injustice

or for the extension of justice?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless

I can state the arguments against my position

better than the people who are in opposition.

I am qualified to speak only when

I've reached that state.

Charlie Munger

You should not honor men more than truth.

Plato

Two percent of the people think.

Three percent of the people think they think.

And ninty-five percent of the people

would rather die than think.

George Bernard Shaw

True morality consists not in following

the beaten track, but in finding the true path

for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

the world to himself. Therefore all progress

depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw