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

The Measure of Man

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

Human greatness does not lie in wealth

or power but in character and goodness.

Anne Frank

The human being cannot live in a condition

of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing

toward something, he does not merely stagnate;

the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity

and despair, and eventually into

destructive activities.

Rollo May

No man is more unhappy than he who never

faces adversity. For he is not permitted

to prove himself.

Seneca

The greatness of a man is not in how much

wealth he acquires, but in his integrity

and his ability to affect those

around him positively.

Bob Marley

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

One doesn't discover new lands without

consenting to lose sight, for a very

long time, of the shore.

André Gide

Only a man who knows what it is like to be

defeated can reach down to the bottom of

his soul and come up with the extra

ounce of power it takes to win

when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

The obedient always thinks of themselves

as virtuous rather than cowardly.

George Carlin

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;

making the complicated simple, awesomely

simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Excellence in anything increases

your potential in everything.

Joe Rogan

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a

bank account but in the way we make others feel

and the way they make us feel.

Joe Rogan

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moment of comfort

and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

Compassion for animals is intimately associated

with goodness of character, and it may be

confidently asserted that he who is cruel

to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's highest duty is to protect

animals from cruelty.

 

Émile Zola

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

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

In any story, the villain is the catalyst.

Marilyn Manson

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that

in the process he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When evil men plot, good men must plan.

When evil men burn and bomb,

good men must build and bind.

When evil men shout ugly words of hatred,

good men must commit themselves

to the glories of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No people have risen who thought only of rights.

Only those did so who thought of duties.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we have to have a choice between being dead

and pitied, and being alive with a bad image,

we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nature, in her indifference, makes no

distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Chaos was the law of nature;

order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

If you are not liberal when you are young,

you have no heart,

and if you are not conservative when old,

you have no brain.

Winston Churchill

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

When bad men combine, the good must

associate; else they will fall one by one.

Edmund Burke

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant

society, then the tolerant will be destroyed,

and tolerance with them. We should

therefore claim, in the name of tolerance,

the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Karl Popper

The Future is Vegan 🌻

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat,

and the time will come when men such as I

will look upon the murder of animals

as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

But It's Happy Meat

Jo Frederiks

Animals have the purity humans have lost.

Brigitte Bardot

Jesus answered... For I tell you truly,

he who kills, kills himself, and whoso

eats the flesh of slain beasts

eats the body of death.

The Essene Gospel of Peace Book One 38-41

The greatness of humanity is not in being human,

but in being humane.

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

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree,

we can all be united in our fear and hatred

for the horror that is factory farming.

Joel Salatin

 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

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use

their minds without prejudice and without

fearing to understand things that clash with

their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

This state of mind is not common,

but it is essential for right thinking.

Leo Tolstoy

Change is the only constant in life.

Ones ability to adapt to those changes

will determine your success in life.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Educate the children and it won't

be necessary to punish the men.

Pythagoras

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The true measure of any society can be found

in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Mahatma Gandhi

You never change things by fighting

the existing reality. To change something,

build a new model that makes

the existing model obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The measure of intelligence

is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

Why are you so afraid of change? Nothing

in this world can be without change. Only

one rule is constant: do not do anything

inhumane to others.

Marcus Aurelius

Don't be pushed by your problems.

Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

 test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals

respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Tom Regan

The day may come when the rest of the animal

creation may acquire those rights which never

could have been witholden from them

but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham

Just as we have tried to end racism, sexism and

ageism, we can also try to end speciesism.

A vegan lifestyle is the ultimate protest

against animal exploitation.

Benjamin Zephaniah

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge

but imagination.

Albert Einstein

It's Time.

You see things; and you say 'Why'?

But I dream things that never were,

and I say 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

Happy Mother's Day

A mother's love does not derive from the intellect

but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides

We're taught as children that milk

comes from cows when in reality,

milk comes from mothers.

Preacher Lawson

I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.

Fred Rogers

You were Designed for Influence

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

The greatest gift you have to give

is that of your own self-transformation.

Lao Tzu

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

The only questions that really matter

are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Recognize that your birth was a response to

the world's requirements, not solely

your own wishes.

Epictetus

The purpose of life is not to be happy.

It is to be useful, to be honorable,

to be compassionate, to have it make some

difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think about what your skills are, and what you

enjoy doing, or what you're good at and

employ those specific skills to make

the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur

Success is not the key to happiness.

Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing,

you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

What you do makes a difference, and you have to

decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Champions are made from something they have

deep inside of them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life consists not in holding good cards

but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

We change the world not by what we say or do

but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

A burning passion coupled with absolute

detachment is the key to all success.

Mahatma Gandhi

Find out what makes you kinder,

what opens you up and brings out

the most loving, generous,

and unafraid version of you,

and go after those things

as if nothing else matters.

George Saunders

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

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

Consciousness & A.I. 🤖

Emotion is the chief source of consciousness.

There is no change from darkness to light or

from inertia to movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

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

Gods always behave like the people

who created them.

Zora Neale Hurston

The femme fatale expresses woman's ancient

and eternal control of the sexual realm.

The specter of the femme fatale stalks

all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia

Computers will overtake humans with AI

within the next 100 years. When that happens,

we need to make sure the computers

have goals aligned with ours.

Stephen Hawking

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

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

Compassion is the signature

of higher consciousness.

Amit Ray

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

The Creature includes animals within its moral

codes, but is thwarted and deeply frustrated

when seeking to be included within the moral

codes of humanity. It learns that regardless

of its own inclusive moral standards, the human

circle is drawn in such a way that both it

and the other animals are excluded from it.

Carol J. Adams

If a group of beings were to land on Earth -

beings who considered themselves as superior

to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals

- would you concede them the rights over you

that you assume over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw

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

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham

The destiny of civilized humanity depends more

than ever on the moral forces it is capable

of generating.

Albert Einstein

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