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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

The Path is the Goal

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

Health

Business

Friends

Family

Passions

Relationships

It's a dangerous conception of mental hygiene

to assume that what man needs is equilibrium.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless

state but rather a striving and struggling

for a worthwhile goal.

Viktor Frankl

The price of anything is the amount of life

you exchange for it.

Henry D Thoreau

He who has a why to live

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life isn't about finding yourself or finding

anything. Life is about creating

yourself and creating things.

Bob Dylan

Your legacy is every life you've ever touched.

Maya Angelou

Decide who you will be five years from now and then vizualise what success looks and feel liks for you.

- What do you look like and how are you dressed?

- Who are the people you surround yourself with?

- Where do you live? What does your home look like?

- Are you traveling to some exotic location or in an office at your dream job?

- Where do you go to have fun and who do you enjoy spending your time with?

- In what ways do you give back to your community?

- What do people know you for and how will you be remembered?

Once you have established this vision clearly in your mind's eye, begin writing out an in-depth description of this version of you that you just saw. Write your account in the first person and as though you have already achieved the healthy body and vibrant lifestyle you just envisioned.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You imagine what you desire,

you will what you imagine

and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

Close your eyes and feel yourself

already having what you want.

This takes you from a state

of wanting to a state of being.

Mastin Kipp

If you will keep being your best,

you will come into a life that is

beyond your expectations.

Aristotle

SPECIFIC:

- What, specifically, are you ready to work on achieving?

MEASURABLE:

- What measuring stick will you use to make sure you are staying on track?

ACTIONABLE:

- What steps of action will you be taking on the path to achieving your goals?

RELEVANT:

- What will achieving this goal contribue to the overall vision you created for yourself in step 1?

TIME BOUND:

- Create a window of time to achieve your goal and commit to it.

- Reaffirm to yourself every morning how much time you have left to complete it,

then again before going to sleep.

Dreams are free, but goals have a cost,

which are time, effort, sacrifice and sweat.

Usain Bolt

Victory is reserved for those

who are willing to pay its price.

Sun Tzu

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is

necessary. If fulfils the same function

as pain in the human body. It calls

attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

Your M.O. should be one or two sentences and reflect what it is you are going after and how you are going to achieve it, concisely and with precision.

Recite it daily, anchoring yourself to the pursuit of achieving your goal.

Most people just want to be in the result and not

in the process, and it's in the process where you

realize who deserves to be in the result.

Work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is not what we think or feel that makes us

who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do.

Jane Austen

1. Write down your dream life.

2. List what changes you need to implement to create this life.

3. Break down each change into bite-sized action steps.

4. Implement the action steps into your daily habits.

- Remind yourself of why you're doing what you're doing every day.

- Visualize how the outcome of your goals is going to make you feel. Look at pictures. Say affirmations. Journal.

- Train your self-discipline. Exercise every day. Stick to a whole-food, plant-based diet.

Great things are done by a series

of small things brought together.

Vincent van Gogh

The path is the goal.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Measure of Man

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

Human greatness does not lie in wealth

or power but in character and goodness.

Anne Frank

The human being cannot live in a condition

of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing

toward something, he does not merely stagnate;

the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity

and despair, and eventually into

destructive activities.

Rollo May

No man is more unhappy than he who never

faces adversity. For he is not permitted

to prove himself.

Seneca

The greatness of a man is not in how much

wealth he acquires, but in his integrity

and his ability to affect those

around him positively.

Bob Marley

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

One doesn't discover new lands without

consenting to lose sight, for a very

long time, of the shore.

André Gide

Only a man who knows what it is like to be

defeated can reach down to the bottom of

his soul and come up with the extra

ounce of power it takes to win

when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

The obedient always thinks of themselves

as virtuous rather than cowardly.

George Carlin

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;

making the complicated simple, awesomely

simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Excellence in anything increases

your potential in everything.

Joe Rogan

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a

bank account but in the way we make others feel

and the way they make us feel.

Joe Rogan

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moment of comfort

and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

Man is an animal with primary instincts

of survival. Consequently his ingenuity

has developed first and his soul afterwards.

The progress of science is far ahead

of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

Compassion for animals is intimately associated

with goodness of character, and it may be

confidently asserted that he who is cruel

to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's highest duty is to protect

animals from cruelty.

 

Émile Zola

In any story, the villain is the catalyst.

Marilyn Manson

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that

in the process he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When evil men plot, good men must plan.

When evil men burn and bomb,

good men must build and bind.

When evil men shout ugly words of hatred,

good men must commit themselves

to the glories of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No people have risen who thought only of rights.

Only those did so who thought of duties.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nature, in her indifference, makes no

distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Chaos was the law of nature;

order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

If you are not liberal when you are young,

you have no heart,

and if you are not conservative when old,

you have no brain.

Winston Churchill

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

When bad men combine, the good must

associate; else they will fall one by one.

Edmund Burke

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant

society, then the tolerant will be destroyed,

and tolerance with them. We should

therefore claim, in the name of tolerance,

the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Karl Popper

🐛 The Mind is the Motor 🦋

What you want is deliberately placed

out of reach so that you can become

the person it takes to obtain it.

 

Mastin Kipp

You cannot wish for both strong character

and an easy life. The price of each is the other.

Alex Hormozi

The trials you face will introduce you

to your strengths.

Epictetus

A Feminine Impression - Transform Your Mind

- Visualize the woman that you want to be.

How does she look? How does she smell? How does she act? How does she treat people? What does she have? What is her position in life? What is her purpose? Write it down. Make it as detailed as possible.

- Your mind.

Unravel your subconscious mind and core thoughts. It takes work to access new "emojis" in your mind but the more you use an "emoji", the easier it gets.

- Your thoughts.

Have stillness. Evalute your thoughts and create a new paradigm. Change the channel.

- The spirit.

Daily spiritual cleansing. Forgive yourself.

- The butterfly effect. Transformation.

We delight in the beauty of a butterfly,

but rarely admit the changes it has

gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelo

What is to give light must endure burning.

Viktor Frankl

Your mind is like a garden -

unless you cultivate flowers,

weeds will flourish.

Brian Tracy

Any man could, if he were so inclined,

be the sculptor of his own brain.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

1. Set priorities.

2. Be decisive.

3. Avoid multitasking.

4. Keep a journal.

5. Let go of expectations.

The mind and the body imprint each other.

What we think, we become.

What we become, we think.

Edgar Cayce

1. Define what's holding you back in life. Let go of your blockages. It all starts with awareness. Work with affirmations.

2. Set goals. What do you really want? Admit, accept and decide.

3. Find your fuel. Ask yourself every day: how badly do you want to achieve your goal?

4. Strategize without excuses. How are you going to get yourself from where you are now, to where you want to be? Start and figure it out as you move forward.

Although, I had a hard time seeing how

I could make my dreams come true,

I focused more on what I wanted to achieve

in my life... I took actions day by day,

often outside my comfort zone, to better

myself and bring me closer to those goals.

Tina Turner

If you want it bad enough,

you'll put away all of the excuses,

and you'll do whatever it takes.

If you want it, you'll learn,

you'll create, and you'll be patient

as you put the effort in.

If you want it, you will find

a way to make it happen.

Sylvester McNutt III

1. Accept that achieving your goals is going to be tough.

2. Create your own fuel.

- Connect with your "why". Keep your eyes on the prize.

- Train your self-discipline. Force yourself to do things even when you don't feel like doing it.

- Determination. Keep on going.

3. If it's not working - restrategize.

Discipline is choosing between what

you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Zeno of Citium

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Socrates

If we were to measure what is good by how much

pleasure it brings, nothing would be better than

self-control - if we were to measure what is to be

avoided by its pain, nothing would be more

painful than lack of self-control.

Musonius Rufus

All rivers and some people are crooked because

they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill

This is the real secret of life - to be completely

engaged with what you are doing in the here

and now. And instead of calling it work,

realize it is play.

Alan Watts

Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst.

Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst.

Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd
- men det är vägen, som är mödan värd.

Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast,

där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast.

På ställen, där man sover blott en gång,

blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång.

Bryt upp, bryt upp!

Den nya dagen gryr.

Oändligt är vårt stora äventyr.

Karin Boye

Awaken to Your Destiny

You are not a drop in the ocean;

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

The universe experiences itself through you

for a brief moment called life.

Eckhart Tolle

Pursuing self-esteem can be motivating,

but other sources of motivation, such as

goals that are good for the self and others,

can provide the same motivation

without the costs.

Jennifer Crocker & Lora Park

Jo Frederiks

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

I believe that we are all creative beings and

that you were placed here on this earth

to create something of value to the world.

Something that will help others break free,

something that lights you up with passion and

something that is larger than just you.

Mastin Kipp

Service to others is the rent you pay

for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

If you want to live a happy life,

tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Albert Einstein

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and

go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life's most important and urgent question is:

what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

The thing about real life is that important events

don't announce themselves... Usually something

that is going to change your whole life is

a memory before you can stop and

be impressed about it.

Edith Schaeffer

The really important kind of freedom involves

attention, and awareness, and discipline, and

effort, and being able truly to care about other

people and to sacrifice for them, over and over,

in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Everything that's happened in your life

up until now has been preparing you

to live your purpose. These have been lessons

and now it's your time to step into your purpose

and make your mark. You are stronger than

your circumstances and what other people say.

There is something within you that is only

yours to give. Give us all you've got.

Mastin Kipp

Walk in Boldness and Courage

Give me the courage to follow my intuition with

trust even when I can't see the whole path.

Ignite my passion and show me the way

to serve others with my calling.

Mastin Kipp

To begin is the most important part of any quest

and by far the most courageous.

Plato

The way to change your mental and physical

state, is to take the action first, not wait

for your emotional state to change first.

Rich Roll

Iron rusts from disuse: water loses its purity

from stagnation... even so does inaction

sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

A ship is always safe at the shore,

but that is not what it is built for.

Albert Einstein

A man who fears suffering is already

suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

1. Give your obstacles a score.

2. Keep asking yourself why until you get to the bottom of it.

3. Start small.

4. Set yourself up for success. Attach your new habit to an already existing habit.

You don't have to be great to start,

but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

Take the first step in faith.

You don't have to see the whole staircase,

just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now.

The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs

and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

But he, who dares not grasp the thorn

Should never crave the rose.

Anne Brontë

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning,

not possession but the act of getting there,

which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The sated day is never first.

The best day is a day of thirst.

Yes - there is goal and meaning in our path -

but it's the way that is the labour's worth.

Karin Boye

As you start to walk on the way,

the way appears.

Rumi

Do what you can, with what you have,

where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Doing what needs to be done may not

make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage is the commitment to begin

without any guarantee of success.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage is the most important of all the virtues

because without courage, you can't practice

any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

Life shrinks or expands

in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins