Ladies of the Night

The difference between a lady and a flower girl

is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

George Bernard Shaw

💞 Dating 💓

The secret is not to chase butterflies,

but to take care of the garden

so they'll come to you.

- You teach people how to treat you.

- Look your best. Wear colors like red, pink or leopard. Wear jewelry, makeup, perfume and heels. Make sure that your hair and nails are done.

- If he brings you a gift, say "thank you" and smile.

- Allow him to open the door for you and help you with anything that you have in your hands, to walk on the side of the street that the cars are passing by, to give you his jacket if it's cold and to pull the chair out for you.

- Put the purse in your lap or over the chair. Not on the ground or the floor. Under every bar there's hooks to wrap your purse around.

- Smile, make eye contact and make sure that you're engaged. Put your phone on silent and keep it in your purse. Don't take pictures.

- You don't have to answer any question that you don't want to answer. Just smile or laugh and turn your head. Change the subject. Listen more than you talk. Don't try too hard. Stay away from topics that can be uncomfortable, unhygienic or unpleasant. Avoid topics like personal belifes, politics and religion.

- Allow your date to flag down the waiter. Don't order too much food and don't drink too much alcohol. Not more than one glass of wine or champagne. Order light food and don't overeat.

- Speak in a feminine, soft voice. Have a nice low tone.

- Give compliments but not too many.

- Let him take the lead. Allow it to be silent sometimes. Make eye contact and smile.

- Flirt. Learn from movies and other women. Lean in and tilt your head. Use your body.

- Observe his behaviour towards you, the waiter etc. Take in everything.

- Have manners and etiquette. Take your napkin and dab your face. Make sure that you're not spitting when you're talking or talking with food in your mouth. Be mindful of the noices that you make with your mouth. 

- Always say "excuse me" before you get up from any table. Go to the restroom and touch up your makeup. Make sure nothing is stuck in your teeth.

- Don't reach for the check or ask him what you're going to do with it. If he doesn't pay - it's not a date. 

- Don't complain about anything.

- Allow the man to lead, help and impress you.

- At the end of the date, let him know that you had a nice time, smile and thank him. Be genuine and grateful.

- Let him pursue you, ask you out on another date and start a conversation with you.

1. Positive energy.

2. Look your best.

3. Smell good.

4. Go with the flow. Be present.

5. Flirt - but don't get sexual.

The best way of killing a rose

is to force it open when it is still

only the promise of a bud.

José Saramago

1. Being a tease.

2. Focusing on money & accomplishments.

3. Playing hard to get.

4. Having an entitled mindset.

5. Holding him to standards you won't hold yourself to.

6. Wearing too much makeup.

7. Being too hard.

8. Making it all about God (or anything).

9. Being too independent.

Oh, the tiger will love you.

There is no sincerer love

than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

1. Shipped or no nail polish.

2. Being too much on your phone.

3. Too much makeup.

4. Slutty outfits in public.

5. Talking like a truck driver.

6. Asking for money or gifts.

1. Quality over quantity.

2. Set your standards.

3. Stand by your words.

4. Don't play games.

5. Reciprocate & appreciate.

6. Be confident and be yourself.

7. Never be afraid to lose.

You must find the courage to leave the table

if respect is no longer being served.

Tene Edwards

1. Positive attitude.

2. Physical attraction.

3. Transparency.

4. A willingness to listen.

5. Respect.

6. Loyalty and support.

7. Feminine energy.

Show up and let go.

Love them and let them decide.

Do not force anything, just be open.

Mastin Kipp

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

Better to try all things and find all empty,

than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlotte Bronte

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

🪳 What About Insects? 🐝

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar

is almost as valuable to the child

as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller

Start with what is right

rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

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

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

If honey bees die out,

humans will follow a few years later.

Albert Einstein

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

🍴 All Life is Connected 🌍

We're at war with nature.

If we win, we're lost.

Hubert Reeves

Eating animals has brought us to our knees

as a species. I think it's time to re-examine

our world in a way that doesn't abuse

other species.

Brian May

The concept of factory farming is one 

of our biggest failures as a species.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

Jo Frederiks

The fate of animals is more important to me

than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is

indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Émile Zola

Our fate is inextricably linked to the health and

resilience of the Earth and our fellow earthlings,

and when these are harmed and made to suffer,

so are we.

Gene Baur

The New Swiss Army Knife of the Future

In our hands now lies not only our own future,

but that of all other living creatures

with whom we share the Earth.

David Attenborough

The whole creation groans under the weight

of the evil we humans visit upon these

powerless creatures.

Tom Regan

We are the collateral damage of carnism;

we pay for it with our health,

our environment and our taxes.

Melanie Joy

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price;

and the longer the ignorance is persisted in,

the higher and more terrible becomes

the price that must be paid.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing will benefit human health and

increase the chances for survival of life on Earth

as much as the evolution to a vegan diet.

If the whole world adopts veganism,

it can change the destiny of humankind.

Albert Einstein

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future

of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers.

Peter Singer

Veganism is the 'single biggest way' to reduce

your environmental impact on the planet.

Joseph Poore

The Elephant in the Room

Man can no longer live for himself alone.

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

Every time you spend money you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

Palm Oil and Pollution

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

Ironically, people will do anything to protect

their children, except protect the planet.

Khaled Bin Alwaleed

We are made wise not by the recollection

of our past, but by the responsibility

for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

I think that the Earth's immune system is trying

to get rid of us, as well it should.

Kurt Vonnegut

The destiny of animals cannot be separated

from the destiny of man, and the destiny

of man cannot be separated from

the destiny of all of nature.

Gregory Colbert

What will save us is not technology or science.

What will save us is the ethical

transformation of our society.

Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel

How we treat animals is powerfully connected

to our relationship with the world itself.

Nathalie Portman

In the Belly of the Beast

While we ourselves are the living graves

of murdered animals, how can we expect

any ideal living conditions on this Earth?

George Bernard Shaw

Wokism & Infighting

The task is not, so much to see what no one

has seen yet; but to think what nobody has 

thought yet, about that which everybody sees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you have men who will exclude any of God's

creatures from the shelter of compassion,

you will have men who will deal

 likewise with their fellow men.

St. Francis of Assisi

Speciesism is like racism, sexism and

homophobia: it involves using a morally

irrelevant criterion to block membership

in the moral community.

Gary L. Francione

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals

respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Tom Regan

My own view is that being vegan is not an end

in itself, but a means towards reducing both

human and animal suffering and leaving a

habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

Injustice anywhere is a threat

to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our

inability to recognize, accept and celebrates

those differences.

Audre Lorde

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct

him to hold in higher esteem those who think

alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong minds discuss ideas,

average minds discuss events,

weak minds discuss people.

Socrates

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

Those who love peace must learn to organize

as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Evil people always support each other;

that is their chief strength.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When bad men combine, the good must

associate; else they will fall one by one.

Edmund Burke

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.

🎅 A Christmas Carol 🎄

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

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