Monday, October 27, 2025

🐶 Adopt, Don't Shop 🐈🐕

Saving one animal won't change the world,
but it will change the world for that one animal.


You can tell a lot about people
by the way they treat their pets.

Frank Sonnenberg


Although I can't stop all cruelty to living
creatures on the planet, I can be kinder
to every living creature in my life.

River Phoenix


It is more important to prevent suffering,
rather than sit to contemplate the evils
of the universe.

Buddha


Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,
quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure
love and always have to mix love and hate.

Sigmund Freud


If we could live happy and healthy lives
without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern



Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.
Sathya Sai Baba


I marvelled at how two souls - two completely
different species - could make each other
so happy. If you were kind to animals,
they repaid that kindness thousandfold.
People disappointed; animals never did.

Alan Brennert


When a man loves cats, I am his friend and
comrade without further introduction.

Mark Twain


The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Rumi



To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is
to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


We can judge the heart of a man
by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant


The more I learn about people,
the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain


Dogs are our link to paradise.
Milan Kundera


 A woman is the full circle.
Within her is the power to create,
nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild


There is no happiness like that of being loved
by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that
your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Charlotte Brontë


To heal is to touch with love that
which we previously touched with fear.

Stephen Levine


The heart of a good man is the sanctuary
of God in this world.

Suzanne Curchod


Until one has loved an animal a part
of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France


The dog is between the child and the angel
in terms of mentality, heart and feeling.

Anthony of Curtis

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


It's not the events of our lives that shape us,
but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins


Humans think in stories, and we try to
make sense of the world by telling stories.

Yuval Noah Harari


The stories we tell literally make the world.
If you want to change the world,
you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis


The mind and the body imprint each other.
What we think, we become.
What we become, we think.

Edgar Cayce


A season of loneliness and isolation
is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

Mandy Hale


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


One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose
your own sense of self and accept the version
of you that is expected by everyone else.

K.L. Toth


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


I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single
intelligent man to the thoughtless approval
of the masses.

Johannes Kepler


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.

You feel lonely not because nobody
is with you but because you are
not with you.

Shams Tabrizi


- 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


We live in a world where funerals are more
important than the deceased, marriage is more
important than love, looks are more important
than the soul. We live in a packaging
culture that despise content.

Sir Anthony Hopkins


Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


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

Sunday, October 26, 2025

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


The more you discipline yourself,
the less you will be disciplined by others.

Napoleon Hill


I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow.
Easy doesn't make you think.

Madonna


Change happens by listening and then
starting a dialogue with the people who are
doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall


If animals could speak, mankind would weep.
Anthony Douglas


Love your enemies, for they tell you you faults.
Benjamin Franklin


One of the most sincere forms of respect is
actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill


People are taught how to speak,
but their major concern
should be how to keep silent.

Leo Tolstoy


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


It is better to be king of your silence
than a slave of your words.

William Shakespeare


A fool is known by his speech;
and a wise man by silence.

Pythagoras


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


He who speaks, sows. He who listens, collect.
Pythagoras


Think before you speak, read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz


Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Mahatma Gandhi


The trouble with the world is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell


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


You can tell more about a person by what
he says about others than you can by
what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn


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


If you think your belief is based upon reason,
you will support it by argument rather than
by persecution, and will abandon it if
the argument goes against you.
But if your belief is based upon faith,
you will realize that argument is useless,
and will therefore resort to force.

Bertrand Russell


Listen with the intent to understand,
not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey


Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
Samuel Becket


There is an almost universal tendency, to suspect
the good faith of a man who holds opinions
that differ from our own opinions. It obviously
endangers the freedom and objectivity of our
discussion if we attack a person instead of
attacking an opinion, or more precisely, a theory.

Karl Popper


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


Intelligence is measured by a person's
ability to see validity within both sides
of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


The greatest thing in the world is not so much
where we stand as in what direction
we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made dem feel.

Maya Angelou


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

Friends

True friends are families which you can select.
Audrey Hepburn


Right now you may not be where you intended
to be, but it's where you need to be in order
to get where you want to go.

Steven Aitchison


The most we can hope for is to create
the best possible conditions for success,
then let go of the outcome.
The ride is a lot more fun that way.

Phil Jackson


We are disturbed not by what happens to us,
but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Epictetus


What you want is deliberately placed
out of reach so that you can become
the person it takes to obtain it.
 
Mastin Kipp


The same wall that keeps out your
disappointment also keeps out the sunlight
of enriching experiences. So let life touch you.

Jim Rohn



The longer you wait, the bigger the prize.
George Bernard Shaw


People grow when they are loved well.
If you want to help others heal,
love them without an agenda.

Mike McHargue






You may never know what results come
of your actions, but if you do nothing,
there will be no results.

Mahatma Gandhi


All rivers and some people are crooked
because they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill



The only constant in life is change.
Heraclitus




Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Saturday, October 25, 2025

How to Travel

The purpose is not the destination
but the journey itself.

Amish Tripathi


Travel and tell no one, live a true love story
and tell no one, live happily and tell no one,
people ruin beautiful things.

Khalil Gibran





Environment is the invisible hand
that shapes our behavior.

James Clear




1. Make a list of your essentials.
2. Coordinate outfits in advance.
3. Use packing cubes.
4. Fold heavy items, roll smaller items.
5. Have a waterproof bag for liquid.
6. Wear the bulkiest items and accessories on the plane.
7. Make use of every space.
8. Travel with less.


If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain,
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson





Either write something worth reading
or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

The Power of Your Perfume 💮

Loving yourself is part of loving God.
Take care of the temple that houses your soul.
A well maintained body allows
the soul to live it's purpose fully.

Mastin Kipp


You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha


Happiness is nothing more than
good health and bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer



The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
George Bernard Shaw


Dreams come true in direct proportional
to how much self-care you practice.

Mastin Kipp


Give a man health and a course to steer
and he'll never stop to trouble about
whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw


I have never believed that man's freedom
consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in
never doing what he does not want to do.

Jean-Jaques Rousseau


Pleasures can become punishments
when taken beyond a certain point.

Marcus Aurelius


I often think of alcohol as a genie in a bottle.
It promises everything but eventually
imprisons you in the bottle itself.

Erica Jong



When a person can't find a deep sense of
meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Victor Frankl


I learned through my body and soul that it was
necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to
strive for property and experience nausea and
the depths of despair in order to learn not to
resist them, in order to learn to love the world,
and no longer compare it with some kind of
desired imaginary vision of perfection, but
to leave it as it is, to love it
and be glad to belong to it.

Hermann Hesse


Complete abstinence is easier
than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine


The body is a part of the soul made visible, 
the expression of the soul to our external senses.

William Blake


Your body is the temple to your soul.
Treat it impeccably well.

Mastin Kipp





There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubenstein




It is the unseen, unforgettable,
ultimate accessory of fashion
that heralds your arrival and
prolongs your departure.

Coco Chanel



1. Unkept feet.
2. Lipliner outside of your lips.
3. Greasy hair.
4. Neglecting your makeup.
5. Showing your hair extensions.
6. Badly fitted fake eyelashes.
7. Blush that is not blended correctly.
8. Hair that doesn't have movement.
9. Unnatural hair color.
10. Cakey makeup.


1. Yellow or orange tone in blonde hair.
2. Hair band around your wrist.
3. Wrong tone in your foundation.
4. Split ends.
5. Tacky behavior.
6. Bad teeth.
7. Juvenile perfume
8. Dated style.
9. Eyebrows that are too strong.
10. Chipped nails.


The key to learning great skills
is to pay attention.

Mike Desert



Knowledge is not skill.
Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Shinichi Suzuki





1. Discover your signature scent.
2. Layering for longevity.
3. Timing is everything.
4. Less is more.
5. Embrace confidence & authenticity.