🌍 Know Your Why 💚

He who has a why to live for

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs

three times a day. Three times a day I remind

myself that I value life and I do not want to

cause pain to or kill other living beings.

That is why I eat the way I do.

Nathalie Portman

There comes a time when one must take

a position that is neither safe, nor popular,

but he must take it because conscience

tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Be nice to the environment.

Be nice to animals.

Be nice to people.

If you do that, you will leave

a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

Once I learned about how animals are treated

in our industrial food system, I didn't

want any part of it.

Billie Eilish

I show my love for animals by not eating them

or participating in any business that profits

directly from their exploitation.

Mayim Bialik

We change the world not by what we say or do

but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

If people understood that for two minutes

of pleasure, there is a lifetime of suffering.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

If you don't have it in your heart to help animals,

then just leave them alone and do no harm.

Katie Cleary

This is why I am vegan;

I don't support the barbaric treatment

and slaughtering of millions of animals.

I don't support this industry.

Lewis Hamilton

When people ask me why I don't eat animal

products I say, 'Because they are unhealthy

and they are the product of a violent and

inhumane industry.'

Casey Affleck

I feel great after every meal, and I know that

no animals are getting hurt in the process.

Travis Barker

If you look at the climate crisis or the violence 

of our food system and feel helpless, thinking 

'I wish there was something I could do'

- you can. Right now.

Joaquin Phoenix

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to the cruelty

in the world.

Jessica Chastain

Animals in Entertainment

Animals are not ours to eat, wear,

experiment on, use for entertainment

or for any exploitative purpose.

Sharon Gannon

Jo Frederiks

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

George Bernard Shaw

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

It's clear to anyone with a brain and an ounce

of compassion that marine parks are nothing

more than concrete prisons.

Roger Moore

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the 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

We know we cannot be kind to animals

until we stop exploiting them -

exploiting animals in the name of science,

exploiting animals in the name of sport,

exploiting animals in the name of fashion,

and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

César Chávez

What's Wrong with Eggs? 🐣

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not

consume dairy and egg products, because they

are products of the meat industry. If we stop

consuming, they will stop producing. Only

collective awakening can create enough

determination for action.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We're exploiting female bodies and abusing the

magic of female animals to create eggs and milk.

Nathalie Portman

Our prime purpose in this life is to help

others. And if you can't help them,

at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

The animals of the world exist for their own

reasons. They were not made for humans

any more than black people were made

for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

Jo Frederiks

We've objectified certain animals so much that

we refer to them as 'livestock'. 'Stock' that just

so happens to be alive. An inconvenience

that they were even alive to begin with.

Ed Winters

God's Creatures 🐄🐑🦃🐓🐠🐖

Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.

Anthony Douglas Williams

It may be suggested by some books that it is not

a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our

own hearts - more clearly than in any book -

that we should take pity on animals

in the same way as we do on humans.

Leo Tolstoy

For if animals are God's creatures, we have no

absolute rights over them, only the duty to look

after them as God would look after them.

To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of

ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are

to honor life for the sake of the Lord of the life.

Andrew Linzey

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation,

and have treated our distant cousins in fur

and feathers so badly that beyond doubt,

if they were able to formulate a religion,

they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Gods created certain kinds of beings

to replenish our bodies; they are the trees

and the plants and the seeds.

Plato

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy

to be heard by what is above him when he

shows no mercy to those under his power?

Pierre Troubetzkoy

Where love is, there God is also.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no religion without love, and people may

talk as much as they like about their religion,

but if it does not teach them to be kind

to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.

Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we

would wish them to treat us, were any

other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers

the blessing of God, the Compassionate,

if we in turn will not practice elemantary

compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

No God would be a slave master,

a torturer and a killer of his animals, his babies.

If he was, then he would not be God.

He would be the Devil.

Gary Yourofsky

Those who are merciful will be shown mercy

by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those

on the earth and the One in the heavens

will have mercy on you.

Mishkat al-Masabih: Book 6, Chapter 7, 8:178

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is

the means of realising him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man worships an invisible God

and destroys a visible Nature.

Unaware that this Nature he's destroying

is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves

Be kind to all creatures.

This is the true religion.

Buddha

Ajar Setiadi

The Power of Sanctuary

The day the power of love

overrules the love of power,

the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

Kindness, I discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Power is actualized only where word

and deed have not parted company,

where words are not empty and deeds

not brutal, where words are not used

to veil intentions but to disclose realities,

and deeds are not used to violate and

destroy but to establish relations

and create new realities.

Hannah Arendt

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

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

In compassion lies the world's true strength.

Buddha

I believe that the reson of life is for

each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy

A truth cannot be reached in scripture,

a truth has to be lived in

the innermost temple of your being.

Osho

Just how destructive does a culinary preference

have to be before we decide to eat something else?

If contributing to the suffering of billions of

animals that live miserable lives and, quite often,

die in horrific ways isn't motivating,

what would be?

If being the number one contributor to the most

serious threat facing the planet isn't enough,

what is? And if you are tempted to put off

these questions of your conscience,

to say not now, then when?

Jonathan Safran Foer

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary

of God in this world.

Suzanne Curchod

The animals of the world exist

for their own reasons.

They were not made for humans

any more than black people

were made for white,

or women created for men.

Alice Walker

All were happy - birds, insects and children.

But grown-up people never left off cheating and

tormenting themselves and one another. It was

not this spring morning which they considered

sacred and important, not the beauty of God's

world, given to all creatures to enjoy -

a beauty which inclines the heart to peace,

to harmony and to love. No, what they

considered sacred were their own devices

for wielding power over each other.

Leo Tolstoy

Remember, the entrance door

to the sanctuary is inside you.

Rumi

Minimalism

Simplify your life, for in doing so, you make

room for clarity and purpose. By removing

anything unnecessary, you create space for

what truly matters.

Epictetus

The first step in crafting the life you want

is to get rid of everything you don't.

Joshua Becker

1. Work (essentialism)

2. Personal finances (awareness, goals)

3. Time (daily routines)

4. Possessions (declutter)

5. Meals (plan)

6. Screen time (limit)

7. Relationships (evaluate, decrease)

8. Mental habits (journal, exercise)

Essentialism is not about how to get more things

done. It's about how to get the right things done.

It is about making the wisest possible investment

of your time and energy in order to operate

at our highest point of contribution

by doing only what is essential.

Greg McKeown

1. Set upp barriers.

2. 30 day detox.

3. Re-evaluate your priorities.

Digital minimalism is a philosophy

of technology use in which you focus

your online time on a small number of

carefully selected and optimized activites that

strongly support things you value and then

happily miss out on everything else.

Cal Newport

1. Coffee filters

2. Bottled water

3. Kitchen appliances

4. Plates, mugs and silverware

5. Plastic bags

6. Books

7. Stationary goods

8. Cleaning supplies

9. Single use items

10. Home decor

11. Seasonal decorations

12. Television

13. Technology

14. Pet toys

15. Fashion accessories

16. Jewelry

17. Fast fashion

18. Cocktails/beverages

19. Souvenirs

20. Things I can't afford

1. High maintenance plants

2. Gifts

3. Kindle

4. Cheese board

5. Supplements

6. Cheap kitchen tools

7. Perfume

8. Glass containers/canisters

9. "What if"-/"Maybe"-clothes

10. High heels

1. A bigger home.

2. First class seats.

3. Salon visits.

4. High-end designer clothes.

5. Latest gadgets.

6. Fine dining.

7. Resorts.

8. Car upgrades.

9. Delivery services.

10. Full-priced items.

- Opportunity cost (when you choose something, you give up something else).

- Research. Buy vegan & cruelty-free products. Support ethical companies.

- Wish list.

- Test of time.

- Use what you have.

Every time you spend money you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

How to prepare

- Study your habits.

- Know your purpose.

- Remove temptations.

- How will you measure progress?

Rules

- Check ethical brands, local businesses, thrift first!

- Investments are OK.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and

watch. In a consumer-driven society our

individual choices, used collectively for

the good of animals, can change

the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff

Each one of us makes a difference every day

by the choices we make. When billions start

making ethical decisions, we can put

the world on the right track.

Jane Goodall

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained

not by its growth, but by washing away

from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

1. Other people's validation.

2. Things that don't align with who I am.

3. Scarcity mindset.

4. Attachment to the past.

5. Fillers of life.

You don't improve your life by doing more.

You improve it by doing less

of what doesn't matter.

Cory Allen

- Get clear about what YOU want and why?

- Narrow your focus.

- Create a strong support system.

- Eliminate and simplify based on your values.

- Let go of control and expectations.

- Reset your shopping habit.

- Simplify. Perfect the basics.

- Practice gratitude.

1. You have a clutter-free home.

2. You are good at prioritizing.

3. You have boundaries.

4. You are not influenced by marketing.

5. You don't compare your life to others.

6. You spend on meaningful purchases.

7. You don't rely on material things for happiness.

8. You feel like you're in control of your life.

Most of what we say and do is not essential.

If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time,

and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every

moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Marcus Aurelius

- Start with your physical space.

- What is your version of a 'simple life'?

- How will you redirect your resources?

- What are the habits and mindset to sustain this lifestyle?

- What can you control vs. let go?

Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out

until you're left only with what you love,

with what's necessary, with what

makes you happy.

Leo Bababuta

The Best Arguments Against Veganism

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

All the arguments to prove man's superiority

cannot shatter this hard fact:

in suffering the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

The roots of education are bitter,

but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

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

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