Saturday, May 31, 2025

🌱 Vegan for Life πŸ’š

The stories we tell literally make the world.
If you want to change the world,
you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis



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


The mind that opens up to a new idea
never returns to its original size.

Albert Einstein


Humans think in stories, and we try to
make sense of the world by telling stories.

Yuval Noah Harari


Storytelling reveals meaning without
committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt


What you do makes a difference, and you have to
decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall


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



'Animal Liberation' became the indispensable
foundational text for the movement
whose name it bore.

J.M. Coetzee


The arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


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.
Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder
and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras


In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;
for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer


Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw


I'm opposed to fur and any kind of use of animal
products. I don't eat them, I don't wear them.
I'm not for the killing of any living creature.
Anytime it comes to any kind of animal cruelty,
I'm totally against it.

Bryan Adams


We have in fact, two kinds of morality,
side by side: one which we preach,
but do not practice, and other which we
practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell



I am of the opinion that my life belongs to
the whole community and as long as I live,
it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw


I hope life treats you as well as you treat animals.

Ricky Gervais



By choosing ourselves, we are creating
an image of what human beings should be.

Jean Paul Sartre



Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer


Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi


What we call love is in its essence
reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer


Respect life and life will respect you.
Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh


Three times a day I remind myself that
I value life and do not want to
cause pain to or kill others.

Nathalie Portman


Life isn't about finding yourself or finding
anything. Life is about creating
yourself and creating things.

Bob Dylan


I am an artist at living -
my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki



There are two ways through life:
the way of Nature and the way of Grace.
You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick



My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi


Let your life be your argument.
Albert Schweitzer



I believe that the reson of life is for
each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy


If we could live happy and healthy lives
without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern


One's life has value so long as one attributes
value to the life of others, by means of love,
friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Open Your Eyes

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge
but an active aversion to knowledge,
the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice,
pride or laziness of mind.

Karl Popper

Jo Frederiks

They don't want the truth;
they want their traditions.

Isaac Asimov


Consciously or subconsciously, it is with
deliberation that we do not know or fail
to understand - because incomprehension
allows us, with good conscience, to evade
unpleasant responsibilites, because
ignorance is the best excuse for going on
doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

Aldous Huxley


Most people are not seeking truth - they are
searching for comfort in illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche



As with any violent ideology, the populace must
be shielded from direct exposure to the victims,
lest they begin questioning the system or their
participation in it. This truth speaks for itself:
why else would the meat industry go to such
lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy


We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by
corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges


Truth has to be repeated constantly,
because Error also is being preached all the time,
and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In
the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and
Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,
feeling happy and comfortable in
the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi


The truth is that people are brainwashed into
thinking that it's normal to consume animals.
They are so uncomfortable with confronting
what happens to those animals because
they are part and parcel of that cruelty.

Juliet Gellatley


Unless and until you are prepared to look
at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,
if you want to look the other way or
if you want to play favourites, then
somewhere along the line you're going to
find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

COMFORTABLE LIES

Without ever committing an act of outright
evil ourselves, we collude with it
through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling


What an amount of suffering the poor creatures
have to endure in order to give a few moments
of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer


If slaughterhouses had glass walls,
everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney


The horrifying things that are happening
to animals in order for you to keep
eating meat is inhuman.

Lewis Hamilton


The truth will set you free.
But first, it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem


I have seen firsthand how injustice
gets overlooked when the victims are
powerless or vulnerable, when they have
no one to speak up for them and no means of
representing themselves to higher authority.
Animals are in precisely that position.
Unless we speak out on their behalf,
abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu


There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
Harold S. Kushner



Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral
excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

George Bernard Shaw


Recognize meat for what it really is:
the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden
corpse of a tortured animal.

Ingrid Newkirk


When the suffering of another creature causes
you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial
desire to flee from the suffering one, but
on the contrary, come closer, as close
as you can to him who suffers,
and try to help.

Leo Tolstoy


No man chooses evil because it is evil;
he only mistakes it for happiness,
the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft


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

Monday, May 26, 2025

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.

AndrΓ© 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.
 
Γ‰mile 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

Sunday, May 25, 2025

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




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