🌱 Vegan for Life 💚

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

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

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