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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

I think there is a connection between the way

we treat animals and the way we treat people

who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Angela Davis

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

How to Talk to Meat-Eaters

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

Shame corrodes the very part of us

that believes we are capable of change...

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence

is positive, while shame is destructive.

Brené Brown

The two words 'information' and

'communication' are often used

interchangeably, but they signify

 quite different things.

Information is giving out;

communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

The superior man thinks of virtue;

the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

The best way to convince someone is by

making him realize that what you speak

came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

The most difficult subjects can be explained

to the most slow-witted man if he has not

formed any idea of them already; but

the simplest thing cannot be made clear

to the most intelligent man if he is firmly

persuaded that he knows already,

without a shadow of doubt,

what is laid before him.

Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive

the cleverest and most penetrating man,

but the least wide-awake of children

recognizes it, and is revolted by it,

however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't want to belong to any club

that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

The very man who has argued you down,

will sometimes be found, years later,

to have been influenced by what you said.

C.S. Lewis

People may hear your words,

but they feel your attitude.

John C. Maxwell

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

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

The changes in our life must come from

the impossibility to live otherwise than to

the demands of our conscience, not from our

mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoy

In order for the truth to be heard, it must

be spoken with love. No matter how wise

and true a spoken word is it will not be

conveyed to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Jo Frederiks

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 a 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

Highway to Hell

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

Be an Activist

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

We must take sides. Neutrality helps

the oppressor, never the victim.

Silence encourages the tormentor,

never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind

of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

The world will not be destroyed by those

who do evil, but by those who watch

 them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein

There are many noteworthy examples of

ordinary evil in every culture and country

around the globe, but in terms of preventable

evil I am hard pressed to find any examples

that approach those systematically perpetrated

by humans against the members of other species.

Lawrence Pope

It is more important to prevent animal suffering,

rather than sit to contemplate the evils

of the universe.

Buddha

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression

and cruelty by the bad people but

the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

- Make a clear intention - how do I want to contribute to this world?

- Take a leap of faith. Don't let fear determine your actions.

- Personal branding & communication skills to reach as many as possible.

- Plant seeds. You never know what they will grow into.

- Use your strengths. Direct them towards your mission.

- Have a positive vibe. Nudge and be inclusive but always maintain a clear message.

An active minority always wins out

over a passive majority.

Robert Thompson

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Jo Frederiks

A good person will resist an evil system

with his whole soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,

you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu

Our lives no longer belong to us alone:

they belong to all those who

need us desperately.

Eli Wiesel

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 a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

Terror becomes total when it becomes

independent of all opposition; it rules

supreme when nobody any longer stands

in its way. If lawfulness is the essence of

non-tyrannical government and lawlessness

is the essence of tyranny, then terror is

the essence of totalitarian domination.

Hannah Arendt

The problem is that humans have victimized

animals to such a degree that they are

not even considered victims.

They are not considered at all.

Gary Yourofsky

You can also commit injustice

by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius

People who say it cannot be done

should not interrupt those who are doing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who love peace must learn to organize

as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are many causes I would die for.

There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi

People working together in a strong community

with a shared goal and a common purpose

can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cloe Wade

The difference between what we do and what we

are capable of doing would suffice to solve

most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world;

indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

No matter what the outcome looks like,

if you love has poured out,

you life will be successful.

Ann Voskamp

Just one candle can light another and can light

thousands of other candles, so one heart

illuminates another heart and can

illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

What you want to ignite in others

must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Brontë

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got a hold of for the moment and

I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi