The Orphan Spirit

Young men want to be faithful, and cannot;

Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Oscar Wilde

We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Du sökte en blomma

och fann en frukt.

Du sökte en källa

och fann ett hav.

Du sökte en kvinna

och fann en själ -

Du är besviken.

Edith Södergran

Q & A

A Feminine Impression - How to get over a toxic person

- Cut him off.

- Stop thinking about him.

- Write down what you want in your new partner.

- Evaluate why you were attracted to him.

🪳 What About Insects? 🐝

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar

is almost as valuable to the child

as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller

Start with what is right

rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

True empathy is not self-focused but other-

oriented. Instead of making humanity

the measure of all things, we need to

evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans de Waal

If honey bees die out,

humans will follow a few years later.

Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening

our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

🦀What About Crustaceans? 🦞🦐

The question is not, Can they reason?

nor Can they talk? but rather,

Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

Answer me, you who believe that animals are 

only machines. Has nature arranged for this

animal to have all the machinery of feelings

only in order for it not to have any at all?

Voltaire

No one will protect what they don't care about,

and no one will care about what

they have never experienced.

David Attenborough

True empathy is not self-focused but other-

oriented. Instead of making humanity

the measure of all things, we need to

evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans de Waal

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening

our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein