Sunday, June 29, 2025

The Measure of Humanity

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental
test... consists of its attitude towards those
who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera


The true measure of any society can be found
in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Mahatma Gandhi


The animals you eat are not those who devour
others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts,
you take them as your pattern. You only
hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures
which harm no one, which follow you,
serve you, and are devoured by you
as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Now I can look at you in peace;
I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka


We should be measured by how we treat
the most vulnerable and powerless
in our society.

Cory Booker


Injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


He who feeds a hungry animal,
feeds his own soul.

Charlie Chaplin


God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval


How we treat the vulnerable is
how we define ourselves as a species.

Russell Brand


I shall
Gather up
All the lost souls
That wander this earth
All the ones that are alone
All the ones that are broken
All the ones that never really fitted in
I shall gather them all up
And together we shall find our home.

Athey Thompson


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


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


The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi


In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved, how gently you
lived, and how gracefully you let go
of things not meant for you.

Buddha

Friday, June 27, 2025

Self Love ๐Ÿ’

Integrity: Choosing courage over comfort;
choosing what is right over what is fun, fast
or easy; and choosing to practice our values
rather than simply professing them.

Brenรฉ Brown


Integrity is doing the right thing.
Even when no one is watching.

C.S. Lewis


Find your purpose
You are God's masterpiece. You were designed for the purpose that you were made for. What are your gifts and passions?

Personal branding
- How do you want people to experience you?
- Have a set standard for yourself on how you look and behave. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
- Take pride in the way that you present yourself. No matter who you're interacting with - it's a reflection of you. Your self-identity depends on your conduct at all times.

Enjoy your blessings
Don't dim your light to make others comfortable. Don't let others define you.

I speak to everyone in the same way,
whether he is the garbage man or
the president of the university.

Albert Einstein


The true measure of a person's character is
how they treat others, especially those less
fortunate. Do not let success or failure
define you.

Marcus Aurelius


In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche


- What are your values and goals?
- How do you spend your time and money?
- Are your habits aligned with who you want to be and the life that you want to live?
- Are what you think, say and do in harmony?
- Do you want others to do/say to you/someone you love, what you do/say to others/yourself?
- Do you keep your promises to yourself and to others? Do you respect yourself?
- Write down what you want to change and what you'll do instead.
- Have a visual reminder. Remind yourself every day.
- Fast.
- Build habits.
- Track your behavior. Journal.
- Do you need help in certain areas?
- Do you have role models?
- Are people around you helping you or holding you down?

We gain the strength of
the temptations we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras


Self-respect is the fruit of discipline;
the sense of dignity grows with
the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then,
is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle


- Personalize your life. Write down what you need to operate at your maximum potential.
- Personal excellence in everything (appearance, behavior, work etc). Go the extra mile.
- Pay no attention to haters.
- Be willing to learn from wise people.
- Have a neutral attitude to both compliments and negative opinions about you.
- Work on your posture. Eat and drink well. Exercise. Don't drink alcohol.
- Confidence in God.

It must be our business to act our given role
as best we possibly can and to refrain from
complaining about it. Where ever you find
yourself and in whatever circumstances,
give an impeccable performance.

Epictetus


Learn the rules like a pro,
so you can break them as an artist.

Pablo Picasso


The only person with whom you have to
compare yourself is you in the past.

Sigmund Freud


Luke 7:47
For this reason I say to you, her sins,
which are many, have been forgiven,
for she loved much; but he who is
forgiven little, loves little.


1. Don't take things personally.
2. Set goals.
3. Learn how to be happy alone.
4. Take care of your health.
5. Heal from your past.

In order to love yourself,
you must behave in ways that you admire.

Irvin D. Yalom


Identity capital is our collection of personal
assets. It is the repertoire of individual
resources that we assemble over time.
These are the investments we make in ourselves,
the things we do well enough, or long enough,
that they become part of who we are.

Meg Jay


My method is to take the utmost trouble
to find the right thing to say,
and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw


- Be gentle to yourself.
- Develop your emotional intelligence.
- Create and communicate your boundaries.
- Who you are is enough.
- Embrace your uniqueness.

Be humble, hungry and
the hardest worker in any room.

Dwayne Johnson


Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Sex and the City

The most important relationship is
the one you have with yourself.

Diane Von Furstenberg


Two roads diverged in a road, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost


There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen



Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi




Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive
and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.
Show me the person they sleep with and I will
tell you their valuation of themselves.

Ayn Rand






Style is a way to say who you are
without having to speak.

Rachel Zoe




One has to choose between living one's own
life, fully, entirely, completely - or
dragging out some false, shallow,
degrading existence that the world
in its hypocrisy demands.

Oscar Wilde




Wednesday, June 18, 2025

๐ŸŒป What is Veganism? ๐ŸŒฑ

Veganism is a philosophy and way of living
which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible
and practicable - all forms av exploitation of,
and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or
any other purpose; and by extension,
 promotes the development and use of
animal-free alternatives for the benefit
of animals, humans and the environment.
In dietary terms it denotes the practice
of dispensing with all products
derived wholly or partly from animals.

The Vegan Society



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

Pam Ahern


A good heart will refuse the happiness
built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie


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.

Cรฉsar Chรกvez


Widely recognized as the foundational text
within the animal liberation movement,
Peter Singer's Animal Liberation opened
my eyes to the radical philosophy that all
animals are worthy of equal consideration.

Joaquin Phoenix


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



We cut the throat of a calf and hang him up
by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal
cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board
and cram them with food because we like
the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces
to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate
domestic animals for no reason at all except
to follow an instinctively cruel fashion;
and we connive at the most abominable
tortures in the hope of discovering some
magical cure for our own diseases by them.

George Bernard Shaw


The time will come when humanity will extend
its mantle over everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham


We don't want to focus on the trees
at the expense of the forest.

Douglas R. Hofstadter


Veganism serves as the criterion by which
we know that the pursuit of moral progress
on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
Veganism is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy


Every effort should be made to stop
the wanton, cruel slaughter of animals,
which must be destructive to our morals.

Nikola Tesla


Shame on such a morality that is worthy of
pariahs; and that fails to recognize the eternal
essence that exists in every living being,
and shines forth with inscrutable significance
from all eyes that see the sun!

Arthur Schopenhauer


If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned,
mutilated, killed or tortured, then you
shouldn't condone such behavior towards
anyone, be they human or not.

Moby


The assumption that animals are without
rights and the illusion that our treatment
of them has no moral significance is a
positively outrageous example of human
crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion
is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Whether we exploit animals to eat, wear, to
entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal
rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan


Animals have a right to live, and whilst that
sounds very simple, our culture has denied
them that right in so many ways. In the same
way as I think that humans deserve the chance
for a good life, I extend that to animals.

Sir Paul McCartney


If a being suffers, there can be no moral
justification for refusing to take that
suffering into consideration.

Peter Singer


The greatest thing in the world is not so much
where we stand as in what direction
we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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


Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.

Helen Keller



Do not take that which is not yours,
including the lives of other animals.

Anthony Douglas Williams

Monday, June 16, 2025

Write Your Own Story ๐Ÿชท

The most important relationship we can all have
is the one you have with yourself, the most
important journey you can take is one of
self-discovery. To know yourself, you must
spend time with yourself, you must not
be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself
is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle


It's not the events of our lives that shape us,
but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins


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

Yuval Noah Harari


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

Michael Margolis


The mind and the body imprint each other.
What we think, we become.
What we become, we think.

Edgar Cayce


A season of loneliness and isolation
is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

Mandy Hale


It is a gift to not fit in. It sets you on a journey
of finding a sanctuary within yourself.

Brianna Wiest


Modern man lives under the illusion that he
knows what he wants, while he actually wants
what he is supposed to want. In order to accept
this it is necessary to realize that to know
 what one really wants is not comparatively
easy, as most people think, but one of the most
 difficult problems any being has to solve.
It is a task we frantically try to avoid
by accepting ready-made goals as though
they were our own.

Erich Fromm


We pursue external goals
to hit an internal emotional target.

Mastin Kipp


One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose
your own sense of self and accept the version
of you that is expected by everyone else.

K.L. Toth


The person who follows the crowd will usually go
no further than the crowd. The person who
walks alone is likely to find himself in places
no one has ever seen before.

Albert Einstein


I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single
intelligent man to the thoughtless approval
of the masses.

Johannes Kepler


1. Write down and practice your values.
2. Build a practice of contemplation.
3. Read. Expose yourself to people who had deeper thoughts than you.


- Leave room for the unexpected.
- Find your unique way to contribute to someone's life.
- Set interesting goals and challenge yourself. Never stop learning.
- Slow down to appreciate what you already have.
- Fill your free time with meaningful hobbies.

Do not spoil what you have
by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have
was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus


We live in a world where funerals are more
important than the deceased, marriage is more
important than love, looks are more important
than the soul. We live in a packaging
culture that despise content.

Sir Anthony Hopkins


Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


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om de tvingar dig att gรฅ
dรคr du inga fotspรฅr
har att lita pรฅ.

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om de gรถr all skam till din.
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lite lรคngre in.

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reder sig ibland rรคtt vรคl.
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vann sin egen sjรคl.

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och han smakar tacksam
livets brรถd och salt.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,
nรคr de bryter bort ditt skal.
Verklighet och kรคrna
blir ditt enda val.

Karin Boye

Thursday, June 12, 2025

๐Ÿต Animals Like Us ๐Ÿ˜€

The question is not, "Can they reason?"
nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham


I don't care whether they are capable of
thinking; all I care about is that they
are capable of suffering!

Jeremy Bentham


All beings tremble before violence. All fear
death. All love life. See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?

Buddha


There is no fundamental difference between man
and animals in their ability to feel pleasure
and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin



If you reach for a gun and shoot a bird - just like
that, for fun, for 'sport' - read these few sentences.
The birds we call turtledoves choose one partner.
For life. But when one of them is gone...
the other remains. Alone. In an immense
sadness that is difficult to describe.

David Attenborough


Animals are the main victims of history, and
the treatment of domesticated animals
in industrial farms is perhaps
the worst crime in history.

Yuval Noah Harari



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


Animals suffer as much as we do.
True humanity does not allow us
to impose such sufferings on them.
Until we extend our circle of compassion to
all living beings, humanity will not find peace.

Albert Schweizer



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


The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering
and death on other sentient beings for the trivial
reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is,
without a doubt, one of the most arrogant and
morally repugnant notions in the history
of human thought.

Gary L. Francione


Tuesday, June 10, 2025

๐ŸŒฑ Health is Wealth ๐Ÿ’š

The most ethical diet just so happens to be
the most environmentally sound diet and
just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger


I hope that people try veganism for their health,
the animals and the planet. Even one meal
a day can make a difference.

Tabitha Brown


The earth affords a lavish supply of richess
of innocent foods, and offers you banquets
that involve no bloodshed or slaughter.

Pythagoras


True wealth is having your health
and knowledge of self.

Benjamin Franklin


You will never change your life until
you change something you do daily.
The secret of your success
is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell


Worthless people live to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink to live.

Socrates



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

Chris Hedges


If ignorance is bliss,
why aren't more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson


People ask me how I look so young; I tell them
I look my age. It is other people who look older;
what do you expect from people who eat corpses?

George Bernard Shaw





It always seems to me that man
was not born to be a carnivore.

Albert Einstein


Health so far outweighs all external goods
that a truly healthy beggar is happier
than a sick king.

Arthur Schopenhauer



Our food should be our medicine and
our medicine should be our food.

Hippocrates







Humans lack humanity, not protein.
Eddie Mah


A healthy man wants a thousand things,
a sick man only wants one.

Confucius



We kill billions of wild animals to protect
the animals that we eat. We are destroying
our environment to feed the animals we eat.
We spend more time, money and resources
fattening up the animals that we eat, than we do
feeding humans who are dying of hunger.
After all the expenses of raising these animals,
we eat them; and they kill us slowly.
And rather than recognize this madness, we
torture and murder millions of other animals
trying to find a cure to the diseases
caused by eating animals.

Mike Anderson


People don't break habits;
they replace them with new ones.

Dr. Phil


It is health that is real wealth
and not pieces of gold and silver.

Mahatma Gandhi


I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based,
whole food diet that can expand your life length
and make you an all-around happier person.

Ariana Grande


We can protect our health, our planet,
and the animals we share it with
by leaving them off the plate.

Neal Barnard



Being vegan is the right thing for yourself
and for the planet and animals.

Lenny Kravitz


Veganism is not a diet.
It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman


The reason I'm vegan?
It started off for health reasons.
The reason I'm vegan now?
Because I don't believe in slavery of any species.

John Salley


Take care of the temple that houses your soul.
A well maintained body allows
the soul to live it's purpose fully.

Mastin Kipp