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

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue, and it only does so as the side

effect of one's personal dedication to a cause

greater than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

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

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.

Who We Really Are

I have always felt that the way we treat animals

is a pretty good indicator of the compassion

we are capable of for the human race.

Ali MacGraw

Jo Frederiks

10 percent of any population is cruel,

no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful,

no matter what, and the remaining

80 percent can be moved in any direction.

Susan Sontag

When all are guilty, no one is;

and the very magnitude of the crime

becomes the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

Tsunami of Indifference

Evil thrives on apathy

and cannot exist without it.

Hannah Arendt

Any of us has the capacity for atrocity - 

just as each of us has the capacity for heroism.

David Mamet

Jo Frederiks

Your beliefs become your thoughts,

your thoughts become your words,

you words become your actions,

your actions become your habits,

your habits become your values,

your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong,

gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

Jo Frederiks

Tomorrow the sun will rise to a world

without you in it. You've been given

no reason to live yet you'll fight for another

day in a world that broke your spirit,

that took your freedom and that

showed you the depth of cruelty

capable by humankind.

Emma Hurst

Only with awareness of carnism

can we reclaim our freedom of choice;

without awareness, there is no free choice.

Melanie Joy

Individuals

The systematic torture of sentient beings,

whatever the pretext and in whatever form,

cannot achieve anything more than it

already has: to show us what is the lowest

point of debasement man can reach.

Joaquin Phoenix

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's

defensiveness is the result of selfishness or

apathy, when in fact it is much more likely

the result of systematic and intensive

social conditioning.

Melanie Joy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot

grow accustomed, especially if he sees that

everyone around him lives in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy

Execution of the Soul

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number

to be truly dangerous. More dangerous

are the common men, the functionaries

ready to believe and to act

without asking questions.

Primo Levi

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself;

whoever does injustice, does it to himself,

making himself evil.

Marcus Aurelius

The individual has always had to struggle

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and

sometimes frightened. But no price is too high

to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling

Both optimists and pessimists contributes

to society. The optimist invents the airplane,

the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got a hold of for the moment and

I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

Freedom from Indoctrination

The whole universe is sum up in the human

being. Devil is not a monster waiting to

trap us. He is a voice inside. Look for your

devil in yourself, not in the others. Don't

forget that the one who knows his devil,

knows his God.

Shams Tabrizi

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

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

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

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

Word 🎶

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

In forest, field and den,

The cry goes up to witness,

The soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

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.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts,

Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.

We never pause to wonder at our feasts,

If animals, like men, can possibly have rights.

We pray on Sundays that we may have light,

To guide our footsteps on the path we tread.

We're sick of war, we do not want to fight -

The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,

And yet - we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Like carrion crows, we live and feed on meat.

Regardless of  the suffering and pain

We cause by doing so, if thus we treat

Defensless animals for sport or gain,

How can we hope in this world to attain

The peace we say we are so anxious for.

We pray for it, o'er hecatombs of slain,

To God, while outraging the moral law.

Thus cruelty begets its offspring - war.

George Bernard Shaw

Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man

wrong; And as the butcher takes away the calf

And binds the wretch, and beats him when he

strays, Bearing him to the bloody slaughter-

house, Even so remorseless have they borne him

hence; And as the dam runs lowing up and

down, Looking the way her harmless young

went, And can do nought but wail

her darling's loss.

William Shakespeare

Anything with a face I don't taste.

Anything with an eye or two I don't chew.

Anything with a mouth stays out of my mouth.

Will.i.am

Be on the Right Side of History

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

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)

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

The systematic torture of sentient beings,

whatever the pretext and in whatever form,

cannot achieve anything more than it

already has: to show us what is the lowest

point of debasement man can reach.

Joaquin Phoenix

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.