Money, Money, Money... 💰

The best investment you can make,

is an investment in yourself.

Warren Buffet

Continuous effort is the key

to unlocking your potential.

Winston Churchill

Wealth is the slave of the wise man

and master of the fool.

Seneca

A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love.

These cannot be bought.

They must be earned.

Naval Ravikant

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure,

when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

1. Determine your need.

2. Sell what you don't need. Tax deductible donations.

3. Make a meal plan.

4. Enjoy simplicity.

5. Repair and take care.

6. Research. 

Is it worth the cost?

What will be the cost per use?

Will I get enough value out of it?

Is it something I want to take care of?

Is it worth taking up space in my home?

7. Shop second hand.

8. Remove temptations.

Beware of little expenses.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways to increase your wealth.

Increase your means or decrease your wants.

The best is to do both at the same time.

Benjamin Franklin

1. Don't save - invest!

2. Negotiate.

3. Assess your true needs.

Is this vital for my well-being?

Is this something I need for my day-to-day routine?

Is this purchase out of my own insecurity

or something the media is pushing me to buy?

If I didn't buy this, what's the worst that could happen?

4. Create a financial calendar.

5. Know your number.

6. Research community resources.

7. Take advantage of credit cards.

8. Cultivate relationships around you.

1. Know your "happiness number".

2. Keep lifestyle inflation in check.

3. Invest in your well-being first.

4. Focus on building your story. Don't compare yourself to others.

5. Choose the option that brings the most value.

If it doesn't bring peace, profits or purpose

then don't give it your time, energy or attention.

Morgan Richard Olivier

Happy Thanksgiving

Understand that... you own nothing.

Everything that surround you is temporary,

only the love in your heart will last.

Buddha

He who is not contended with what he has,

would not be contended with what

he would like to have.

Socrates

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living

every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on misfortune of others.

Saadie

Create all the happiness you are able to create;

remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Every day will allow you, will invite you to

add something to the pleasure of others,

or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ethics & Aesthetics

Art is not what you see,

but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Today's Guernica

You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

Aesthetics is the mother of ethics.

Joseph Brodsky

Indefensible

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.

Pierre Reverdy

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Nick Brandt

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

in forest, field and den,

the cry goes up to witness,

the soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

It is our hearts, not just our heads, that call

for an end to it all, 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

Reason is the slave of the passions.

David Hume

To have compassion means to have passion

for all things... for all human beings,

for the animals... everything the earth contains.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We Are All 269

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

The opposite of love is not hate,

it's indifference.

The opposite of art is not ugliness,

it's indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy,

it's indifference.

The opposite of life is not death,

it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Jo Frederiks

I've Seen You in the Meat Aisle

~ by Emma Murphy

I've seen you in the meat aisle,

Seen you choosing who to eat,

Eyeing up their body parts

In rows all nice and neat.

I've seen you grabbing bottled milk

That wasn't made for you

And I know you never think about

The suffering they knew.

I've watched your fill your trolley up

With misery and pain,

Eggs and cheese, a leg, a wing,

My heart just broke again.

You say I should respect your choice,

That it's your right to choose,

Well, legally perhaps you win,

But morally, you lose.

I don't know how you do it

But you close your ears and eyes

To the slaughterhouse, the blood and screams,

Their fear, despair and cries.

It doesn't even cross your mind,

You bite and drink and chew,

And you keep yourself from knowing

That they died because of you.

So no, I don't respect your choice,

There's no respect from me.

You are putting in your stomach

Someone you refuse to see.

The animals, they have no voice,

Convenient for you,

But have a heart and look at those

Who lost their lives for you.

Someone, not something

Favor For Your Assignment

When God gives you an assignment,

he also gives you the skill. Study your skills,

then, to reveal your assignment.

Max Lucado

If you judge a fish on its ability to climb

a tree, it will live its whole life

believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

In every soul there has been deposited

the seed of a great future, but that seed

will never germinate - much less grow

to maturity - except through

the rendering of useful service.

Napoleon Hill

If you kill a cockroach you are a hero,

if you kill a butterfly you are bad.

Morality has aesthetic standards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is amazing how complete is the delusion

that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

If someone tells you to follow your passion

it means they're already rich.

Scott Galloway

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,

in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

Only one who devotes himself to a cause

with his whole strength and soul

can be a master. For this reason

mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

Go the extra mile. There is less competition for

bigger goals. When most people give upp...

keep going.

Mastin Kipp

Success is no accident. It is hard work,

perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice

and most of all, love of what you are doing

or learning to do.

Pelé

Someone Not Something

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

Human are best protector or worst destroyer

of nature and humanity itself.

Sandeep Sahajpal

The problem is that humans have victimized

animals to such a degree that they are

not even considered victims.

They are not considered at all.

Gary Yourofsky

Animals are not ours to eat, wear,

experiment on, use for entertainment

or for any exploitative purpose.

Sharon Gannon

I don't see why someone should lose their life

just so you can have a snack.

Russell Brand

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who moves is not

supposed to be eaten.

Bob Marley

I hold that the more helpless a creature,

the more entitled it is to protection

by man from the cruelty of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

The soul given to each of us is moved by

the same living spirit that moves the Universe.

Albert Einstein

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

Jo Frederiks

We've objectified certain animals so much

that we refer to them as 'livestock'.

'Stock' that just so happens to be alive.

An inconvenience that they were

even alive to begin with.

Ed Winters

I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.

Fred Rogers

The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.

Leif Erikson

Only those who are capable of loving strongly

can also suffer great sorrow, but this same

necessity of loving serves to counteract

their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

Jo Frederiks

One should not kill a living being,

nor cause anyone to be killed,

nor should one incite another to kill.

Do not injure any being,

either strong or weak, in the world.

Buddha

The world is not a factory and

animals are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Turkey❣️- Let's Do Better 🦃

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh

Those who are merciful will be shown mercy

by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those

on the earth and the One in the heavens

will have mercy on you.

Mishkat al-Masabih: Book 6, Chapter 7, 8:178

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Our prime purpose in this life is to help

others. And if you can't help them,

at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Leo Tolstoy

The beauty you see in me

is a reflection of you.

Rumi

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

When we look at the world through another

animal's eyes, we see that inside we're all

the same - and that we all deserve

to live free from suffering.

Joaquin Phoenix

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

Do the best you can until you know better.

Then when you know better, do better.

Maya Angelou

Jo Frederiks

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Masculine Behaviors in Women

1. Bragging.

2. Planning dates.

3. Masculine mannerisms: body language, the way that you walk and move your hands, fast movements in a sloppy way, facial expressions,  tone of voice, cursing, interrupting, being defensive, giving unsolicited advice, telling people what to do, arguing.

4. Being too independent.

A Feminine Impression - Unbecoming & Masculine Behaviors

- Femininity; compassion, servitude, love, kindness.

- Know when to speak, how much to speak and whom to speak to.

- Interrupting others.

- Adding on to people's comments.

- Offering to pay on dates.

- Having a nasty attitude; talking bad about people, gossiping, seeing the worst in every situation. Rolling your eyes, crossing your arms, looking uninterested, complaining, having a stale face, using profanity, cussing people out.

- Emasculating men.

A Feminine Impression - Being Used For Money

1. Being unapproachable.

2. Overtalking and dominating conversations.

3. Being dismissive.

4. Seeing your value in your achievements.

5. Downplaying femininty and feminine women.

6. Being too independent.

7. Being difficult and won't listen.

Show compassion to animals.

Unlike humans, they are never wicked.

Haile Selassie

Matthew 7:1-5

Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

For in the same way you judge others,

you will be judged,

and with the measure you use,

it will be measured to you.

- Stepping into your stance.

- Dealing with negative feelings.

- Discipline.

- Desire.

What is the most beautiful in virile

men is something feminine;

what is most beautiful in feminine

women is something masculine.

Susan Santog

Asian Stereotypes

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons.

That's the way that we attack people. At an

artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Junot Diaz

"Neoteny" is "remaining young" and... human

evolution has been dominated by it. Behavioral

traits such as curiosity about the world,

flexibility of response, and playfulness is common

to all young mammals... Humanity has

advanced, not because it has been sober,

responsible, and cautious, but because it has

been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Tom Robbins

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,

nor the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

The most potent weapon in the hands

of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steven Bantu Biko

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are

somehow different than our brothers and sisters,

allows for all the great evils.

Anna Quindlen

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are

untrue, but that they are incomplete.

They make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Eroticism is first and foremost

a thirst for otherness.

Octavio Paz