Fall Reset 🍁

Autumn is a second spring

when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

1. Over the knee boots.

2. Riding boots.

3. Rain boots.

4. Victorian lace up shoes.

5. Jodhpur shoes.

🍖 Make the Connection 🐑

Compassion is ethical intelligence:

it is the capacity to make connections

and the consequent urge to act

to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle

I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago

when I looked at the pork chop on my plate

and thought: this represents fear, pain, death.

Jane Goodall

Jo Frederiks

Don't talk of love and peace when you

have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,

and not to support any act of killing in the world.

We should consume in such a way that helps

to reduce the suffering of living beings.

And that way we can preserve

compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Until he extends his circle of compassion

to include all living creatures,

man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

A person with the capacity but not the inclination

to cease suffering is morally incomplete.

Mirko Bagaric

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,

can only attain its full breadth and depth

if it embraces all living creatures and

does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

When a child kills an animal for fun,

we fear mental illness.

When an adult with the capacity to reason

does it, we call it 'sport'.

Seth MacFarlane

Compassion is an unstable emotion.

It needs to be translated into action,

or it withers.

Susan Sontag

What do they know - all these scholars, all these

philosophers, all the leaders of the world -

about such as you? They have convinced

themselves that man, the worst transgressor

of all the species, is the crown of creation.

All other creatures were created merely to

provide him with food, pelts,

to be tormented, exterminated.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animals and humans suffer and die alike.

Violence causes the same pain, the same

spilling of blood, the same stench of death,

the same arrogant, cruel, and brutal taking

of life. We don't have to be part of it.

Dick Gregory

Violence begins with the fork.

Mahatma Gandhi

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

I felt that if I were to continue to live

in this world I had to do what I could

to reduce the suffering around me,

or at the very least, not to add to it....

I gave up eating meat.

I have not eaten it since.

Nick Cave

Work, Work, Work...

The quality of your work reflects the quality

of your character. Focus on excellence in

all you do, and success will follow.

Epictetus

Don't climb mountains so that people

can see you. Climb mountains so

that you can see the world.

David McCullough Jr.

Don't pray for lighter burdens,

but for stronger backs.

Buddha

All anyone really requires to start a successful

career is a sound mind, a healthy body,

and a genuine desire to be as much service

as possible to as many as possible.

Napoleon Hill

No matter how isolated you are and how

lonely you feel, if you do your work truly

and conscientiously, unknown friends

will come and seek you.

Carl Jung

No one can ride on the back

of a man unless it is bent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Criticism fulfils the same function as pain

in the human body. It calls attention to

an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

A day of worry is more exhausting

than a week of work.

John Lubbock

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work. And

the only way to do great work

is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

My hunger is not for success,

it is for excellence.

Mike Krzyzewski

The worst thing that we can do as women

is not stand up for each other, and this is

something we can practice every day,

no matter where we are and what we do

- women sticking up for other women,

choosing to protect and celebrate each other

instead of competing or critizing each other.

Amal Clooney

How to Travel

The purpose is not the destination

but the journey itself.

Amish Tripathi

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story

and tell no one, live happily and tell no one,

people ruin beautiful things.

Khalil Gibran

Environment is the invisible hand

that shapes our behavior.

James Clear

1. Make a list of your essentials.

2. Coordinate outfits in advance.

3. Use packing cubes.

4. Fold heavy items, roll smaller items.

5. Have a waterproof bag for liquid.

6. Wear the bulkiest items and accessories on the plane.

7. Make use of every space.

8. Travel with less.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain,

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Either write something worth reading

or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Raise Your Standards

Be civil to all;

serviceable to many;

familiar with few;

friend to one;

enemy with noone.

Benjamin Franklin

Raise your standards and you

will rise along with them.

Mastin Kipp

#1 - Doomed relationships.

#2 - Talking about men.

# 3 - Unrealistic expectations.

# 4 - Social media.

# 5 - Mental health issues.

# 6 - Psychologically illiterate.

# 7 - Financial illiteracy.

1. Get a steamer.

2. Get therapy.

3. Define your lifestyle goals.

4. Prioritize your skin and hair.

5. Use your nicest things at all times.

6. Analyze how to improve your details.

7. Set boundaries.

Don't save anything for a special occasion.

Being alive is a special occasion.

Mary Engelbreit

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

1. Inner work.

2. Procrastination.

3. Support system.

You teach people how to treat you by what you

allow, what you stop and what you reinforce.

Tony Gaskins

I cannot control other people,

but I can control if they are in my life or not.

Mastin Kipp

We can't connect with someone unless we're

clear about where we end and they begin. 

If there's no autonomy between people,

then there's no compassion or empathy,

just enmeshment.

Brené Brown

The person you will be depends largely on

the information you feed your mind today.

Be picky about the books you read,

the people you spend your time with,

and the conversations you engage in.

Ruben Chavez

War on Women

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

Huineng

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people,

but by good people who do not know themselves

and who do not probe deeply.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

the world to himself. Therefore all progress

depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is impossible to think of the welfare of

the world unless the condition of women

is improved. It is not possible for a bird

to fly on only one wing.

Swami Vivekananda

The number of people with any criteria for

distinguishing between good and evil

is very small.

T.S. Eliot

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

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 worst thing that we can do as women

is not stand up for each other, and this is

something we can practice every day,

no matter where we are and what we do

- women sticking up for other women,

choosing to protect and celebrate each other

instead of competing or critizing each other.

Amal Clooney

The question is not whether we will be extremists,

but what kind of extremists we will be. For hate

or for love? For the preservation of injustice

or for the extension of justice?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When I despair, I remember that all through

history the way of truth and love has always

won. There have been tyrants and murderers

and for a time they seem invincible, but in

the end they always fall... think of it, always.

Mahatma Gandhi

Transform Yourself 🦋

Before, my role model was the vision

of the woman I wanted to become.

Then I became that woman.

Diane von Fürstenberg

Act the way you'd like to be and soon

you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

To become the person you aspire to be,

develop the habits of that person.

Bille Cristiane Temanel

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle

of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute

to the happiness of others.

Mary Shelley

1. Prepare: Internal dialogue & mindset.

2. Plan: Set goals.

3. Purge: Internal & external.

4. Provide.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles;

change your leaves, keep intact to your roots.

Victor Hugo

Great things are not done by impulse, but

by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope

for tomorrow. The important thing is not

to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

We change the world not by what we say or do

but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

- Soften your appearance. Pay attention to all aspects. Pamper yourself. Always look your best. Wear soft and bright colours that complement your skintone.

- Soften your movements. Have pliability with your body. Dance. Listen to soft music. Stretch. Slow down your movements. Smile.

- Soften your mind. Be aware of all the things that impact you. Feed your mind with things that elevate you. Pull away from anyone and anything that brings you down. God places people in your life to teach you something but they are rarely meant to be there for your entire life. It's also about the books you read, the people you watch on Youtube etc. Surround yourself with women who have traits that you want to have. Your surroundings rub off on you. Step away from everyhing that hardens you.

- Soften your spirit. Be kind, forgive and love. Break free from addiction.

- Soften your tone of voice. Have a calm, melodic, soothing and sweet tone. Breath and relax. Think before you speak. Speak slower and lower your voice. Pay attention to what voice your use when you speak to different people and why.

A Feminine Impression - How to Become a Softer Feminine Woman

- Rebrand yourself. Don't let others hold you down.

- Practice good manners. Say "please", "thank you", "excuse me" and "you're welcome". Make eye contact. Mind your tone. Be sincere, kind and humble. Treat everyone with the same respect. Show reverence for each and every one of God's creatures.

- Soften your environment. Add flowers, scents and music.

- Spend time with yourself. Slow down.

- Spirituality & healing. Humble yourself. Practice love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Repent.

A Feminine Impression - Butterfly Mail

- Get up at 4 AM or 5 AM.

 - Say affirmations. Use empowering language.

- Write down what you're grateful for and why. Journal.

- Be present. Slow down.

- Keep your environment clean.

- Pamper yourself.

- Have a playlist of music, videos, interviews, speeches etc. that's empowering for you.

- Look soft. Soft colors & feminine clothes. Perfume, nailpolish. Do your hair. Smile.

- Be vulnerable and honest. Take responsibility and apologize.

- Think for yourself.

- Be open-minded and non-judgemental.

- Look for the good in everything & everyone.

- Rejoice in the success of others.

- Remain unbothered. Don't absorb other people's negative energy.

- Focus on your personal goals.

1. Live authentically. Set boundaries. Receieve with joy.

2. Enhance your experiences. Enjoy the process.

3. Stay out of strife.

4. Have peace.

You become what you give your attention to.

Epictetus

A seed grows with no sound, but a tree falls

with a huge noise. Destruction has noise,

but creation is quiet.

Confucius

Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister.

Varför skulle annars våren tveka?

Varför skulle all vår heta längtan

bindas i det frusna bitterbleka?

Höljet var ju knoppen hela vintern.

Vad är det för nytt, som tär och spränger?

Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister,

ont för det som växer och det som stänger.

Ja nog är det svårt när droppar faller.

Skälvande av ängslan tungt de hänger,

klamrar sig vid kvisten, sväller, glider -

tyngden drar dem neråt, hur de klänger.

Svårt att vara oviss, rädd och delad,

svårt att känna djupet dra och kalla,

ändå sitta kvar och bara darra -

svårt att vilja stanna och vilja falla.

Då, när det är värt och inget hjälper,

briser som i jubel trädets knoppar.

Då, när ingen rädsla längre håller,

faller i ett glitter kvistens droppar,

glömmer att de ängslades för färden -

känner en sekund sin största trygghet,

vilar i den tillit som skapar världen.

Karin Boye

🔪From Slaughter to Sanctuary ❤️

We are all better off in a sanctuary 

instead of in a slaughterhouse.

Gene Baur

I expected to find monsters.

But I found something far more terrifying.

I found how easily humans can be

conditioned to do monstrous things.

Bobby Sud

Be the one to break the chain

and bring the change.

Jyoti Chauhan

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Am I not destroying my enemies

when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

I greet you from the other side

of sorrow and despair,

with a love so vast and shattered

it will reach you everywhere.

Leonard Cohen

Would this habit of eating animals not require

that we slaughter animals that we knew

as individuals, and in whose eyes

we could gaze and see ourselves reflected,

only a few hours before our meal?

Socrates

Your legacy is every life you've ever touched.

Maya Angelou

The secret of change is to focus all of 

your energy, not on fighting the old,

but on building the new.

Socrates

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

Human beings are not machines,

and however powerful the pressure to conform,

they sometimes are so moved by what

they see as injustice that they dare

to declare their independence.

In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn

By killing, man suppresses in himself,

unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity,

that of sympathy and pity towards living

creatures like himself, and by violating

his own feelings becomes cruel.

Leo Tolstoy

He who sows the seed of murder and pain

cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

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.

Pythagoras

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent

creatures there can be no peace, no liberty,

no harmony between people.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

For to be free is not merely to cast off

one's chains, but to live in a way

that respects and enhances

the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

Black History

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried

on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

The white man's happiness cannot be

purchased by the black man's misery.

Fredrick Douglass

You can always count on Americans to do

the right thing - after they've tried

everything else.

Winston Churchill

All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Plato

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

I think that's what I get from these older black

women, that every soul is to be cherised,

that every flower is to bloom.

Alice Walker

The greatest crime against the black man

was not slavery or lynching, but that he was

taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Malcolm X

Give people a common enemy, and you will give

them a common identity. Deprive them of an

enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch

by which they know who they are.

James Alison

How to Talk to Meat-Eaters

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent.

Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless.

The key... is pragmatic idealism.

Richar M. Nixon

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

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 accept 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