Blonde 👱‍♀️

I am not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes

because I know I'm not dumb... and I also

know that I'm not blonde.

Dolly Parton

1. Look on the blonde side.

2. Wear a smile.

3. Be smart (instead of seeming so).

4. Treasure your word (and your sisters).

5. Live passionately.

6. Don't judge (lest you be judged).

7. Have faith in yourself.

A man is not finished when he is defeated.

He is finished when he quits.

Epictetus

Style is a way to say who you are

without having to speak.

Rachel Zoe

Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely

feminine. Everything she does is different,

strange and exciting; from the way she talks

to the way she uses that magnificient torso.

She makes a man proud to be a man.

Clark Gable

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool

themselves. They didn't bother to find out who

or what I was. Instead they would invent

a character for me. I wouldn't argue

with them. They were obviously

loving somebody I wasn't.

Marilyn Monroe

I knew I belonged to the public and the world,

not because I was talented or even beautiful,

but because I had never belonged to

anything or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood

night - there must be thousands of girls sitting

alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie

star. But I'm not going to worry about them.

I'm dreaming the hardest.

Marilyn Monroe

I stopped eating animals a long time ago

because they deserve to be protected

from needless cruelty and violence.

Pamela Anderson

What people need to understand is that

if they are eating animals, they are

promoting cruelty to animals.

Pamela Anderson

As long as animals are considered an inferior

species, all kinds of evil and suffering will be

inflicted on them. They will be killed for our

needs, our leisure and pleasure.

Brigitte Bardot

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Becoming vegan was the biggest change I ever

made in my life, and one of the greatest

accomplishments as well.

Woody Harrelson

Life is whatever we make it. The traveller

is the journey. What we see is not

what we see but who we are.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Rich Roll

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

You must be ready to burn yourself in your

own flame; how could you rise anew

if you have not first become ashes?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Smart people learn from everything

and everyone, average people from

their experiences, stupid people

already have all the answers.

Socrates

The greatest gift you have to give

is that of your own self-transformation.

Lao Tzu

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

If we begin with ourselves and do the things

that we need to do and become the best person

we can be, we have a much better chance

of changing the world for the better.

Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

Raise Your Standards

The person you will be depends largely on

the information you feed your mind today.

Be picky about the books you read,

the people you spend your time with,

and the conversations you engage in.

Ruben Chavez

1. Get a steamer.

2. Get therapy.

3. Define your lifestyle goals.

4. Prioritize your skin and hair.

5. Use your nicest things at all times.

6. Analyze how to improve your details.

7. Set boundaries.

Don't save anything for a special occasion.

Being alive is a special occasion.

Mary Engelbreit

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

Ronald Reagan

#1 - Doomed relationships.

#2 - Talking about men.

# 3 - Unrealistic expectations.

# 4 - Social media.

# 5 - Mental health issues.

# 6 - Psychologically illiterate.

# 7 - Financial illiteracy.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

1. Life upgrade - Glow up - Inner work.

2. Procrastination.

3. Support system.

You teach people how to treat you by what you

allow, what you stop and what you reinforce.

Tony Gaskins

I cannot control other people,

but I can control if they are in my life or not.

Mastin Kipp

We can't connect with someone unless we're

clear about where we end and they begin. 

If there's no autonomy between people,

then there's no compassion or empathy,

just enmeshment.

Brené Brown

Be civil to all;

serviceable to many;

familiar with few;

friend to one;

enemy with noone.

Benjamin Franklin

Slow Living

The good life is a process, not a state of being.

It's a direction, not a destination.

Carl R. Rogers

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

If I were asked for the most important advice

I could give, that which I considered to be

the most useful, I should simply say:

in the name of God, stop a moment,

cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

Life is not a problem to be solved,

but a mystery to be lived.

Follow the path that is no path,

follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

Wu Wei is the art of sailing,

rather than the art of rowing.

Alan Watts

A quiet secluded life in the country,

with the possibility of being useful

to people to whom it is easy to do good, and

who are not accustomed to have it done to them;

then work which one hopes will be of some use;

then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's

neighbour - such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

A mind needs books like a sword needs

a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Tyrion Lannister

- Replace "dead time" with a purpose.

- Sort out mental clutter.

- Practice delayed gratification.

- Lessen the gap between you and your goal.

- Redefine what reward means.

Enjoy the little things in life, because one day

you will look back and realize

they were the big things.

Kurt Vonnegut

1. Rest & recharge.

2. Remove distractions.

3. Take care of your body.

4. Take one step towards your goal.

5. Show up as your best self.

6. Accomplish one big task.

7. Do something fun.

8. Make connections everywhere you go.

9. Have something to look forward to.

10. Make time for yourself.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may

make ourselves happy, but of how we may

make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

- Enjoy the experience.

- Don't rush the process.

- Focus on the meaning, not the action.

- Take time to relax.

- Make mistakes and learn.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure

to bother about whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

Comfort is the worst addiction.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Mostly it is loss which teaches us

about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness is like a butterfly,

the more you chase it,

the more it will evade you,

but if you notice the other things around you,

it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sex and the City

The most important relationship is

the one you have with yourself.

Diane Von Furstenberg

Two roads diverged in a road, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

There is a crack in everything,

that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find all the barriers

within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive

and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.

Show me the person they sleep with and I will

tell you their valuation of themselves.

Ayn Rand

Style is a way to say who you are

without having to speak.

Rachel Zoe

There are only two tragedies in life:

one is not getting what one wants,

and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

One has to choose between living one's own

life, fully, entirely, completely - or

dragging out some false, shallow,

degrading existence that the world

in its hypocrisy demands.

Oscar Wilde

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Don't talk of love and peace when

you have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates

Man has made the Earth a hell for animals.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Jo Frederiks

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

You have just dined, and however scrupulously

the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful

distance of miles, there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jo Frederiks

No man chooses evil because it is evil;

he only mistakes it for happiness,

the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The thinking person must oppose all

cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted

in tradition and surrounded by a halo.

When we have a choice, we must avoid

bringing torment and injury

into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

Jo Frederiks

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on misfortune of others.

Saadie

What an amount of suffering and cruel

punishment the poor creatures have to

endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

George Bernard Shaw

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

It takes nothing away from a human

to be kind to an animal.

Joaquin Phoenix

If people understood that for two minutes

of pleasure, there is a lifetime of suffering.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

Think occasionally of the suffering

of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of

dollars lying to the public about their product.

But no amount of false propaganda can

sanitise meat. The facts are absolutely clear.

Eating animals is bad for human health,

catastrophic for the environment and

a living nightmare for animals.

Chrissie Hynde

Jo Frederiks

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

People who say they love animals sit down to

enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been

utterly deprived of everything that could

make their lives worth living and who

endured the awful suffering and

the terror of the abattoirs.

Jane Goodall

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless

Christmas dinner's dark and blue

When you stop and try to see it

From the turkey's point of view

Sunday dinner isn't sunny

Easter feasts are just bad luck

When you see it from the view point

of a chicken or a duck

Oh how I once loved tuna salad

Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too

Till I stopped and looked at dinner

From the dinner's point of view

Shel Silverstein

As long as man continues to be the ruthless

destroyer of living beings he will never

know health or peace. For as long as men

massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder

and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

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

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To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

Evil comes from a failure to think.

It defies thought for as soon as thought

tries to engage itself with evil

and examine the premises and principles

from which it originates,

it is frustrated because it finds nothing there.

That is the banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

I try to encourage people to think for themselves,

to question standard assumptions... Don't take

assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a

skeptical attitude toward anything that is

conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself.

Be willing to ask questions about what

is taken for granted. Try to think

things through for yourself.

Noam Chomsky

It is impossible for a man to learn

what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

Many are destined  to reason wrongly; others,

not to reason at all; and others to persecute

those who do reason.

Voltaire

Those who will not reason, are bigots,

those who cannot, are fools,

and those who dare not, are slaves.

Lord Byron

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

As well the minds which are prevented from

changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You were not made to live as brutes,

but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Let me give you a definition of ethics:

it is good to maintain and further life

it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Albert Schweitzer

Two percent of the people think.

Three percent of the people think they think.

And ninty-five percent of the people

would rather die than think.

George Bernard Shaw

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't worry about siding for or against

the majority. Worry about taking up

any of their irrational beliefs.

Marcus Aurelius

It is difficult to get a man to understand

something when his salary depends on

his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Humans lack humanity, not protein.

Eddie Mah

Everyone "loves" animals until they hear

the word "vegan". Then they'll argue tooth

and nail why it's acceptable to abuse them.

Rob Zombie

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil

people, but by good people who do not

know themselves and who do not

probe deeply.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The indifference, callousness and contempt

that so many people exhibit toward animals

is evil first because it results in great suffering

in animals, and second because it results in

an incalculably great impoverishment

of the human spirit.

Albert Einstein

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

All the arguments to prove man's superiority

cannot shatter this hard fact:

in suffering the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures

is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them:

that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw