Sunday, August 31, 2025

Fall Reset ๐Ÿ

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.


Friday, August 29, 2025

๐Ÿ– Make the Connection ๐Ÿ‘

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


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

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

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.

Brenรฉ 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

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Transform Yourself ๐Ÿฆ‹

Before, my role model was the vision

of the woman I wanted to become.

Then I became that woman.


Diane von Fรผrstenberg


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.


- 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.


- 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


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Varfรถr skulle annars vรฅren tveka?
Varfรถr skulle all vรฅr heta lรคngtan
bindas i det frusna bitterbleka?
Hรถljet var ju knoppen hela vintern.
Vad รคr det fรถr nytt, som tรคr och sprรคnger?
Ja visst gรถr det ont nรคr knoppar brister,
ont fรถr det som vรคxer och det som stรคnger.

Ja nog รคr det svรฅrt nรคr droppar faller.
Skรคlvande av รคngslan tungt de hรคnger,
klamrar sig vid kvisten, svรคller, glider -
tyngden drar dem nerรฅt, hur de klรคnger.
Svรฅrt att vara oviss, rรคdd och delad,
svรฅrt att kรคnna djupet dra och kalla,
รคndรฅ sitta kvar och bara darra -
svรฅrt att vilja stanna och vilja falla.

Dรฅ, nรคr det รคr vรคrt och inget hjรคlper,
briser som i jubel trรคdets knoppar.
Dรฅ, nรคr ingen rรคdsla lรคngre hรฅller,
faller i ett glitter kvistens droppar,
glรถmmer att de รคngslades fรถr fรคrden -
kรคnner en sekund sin stรถrsta trygghet,
vilar i den tillit som skapar vรคrlden.

Karin Boye

Saturday, August 23, 2025

๐Ÿ”ชFrom 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

Friday, August 22, 2025

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

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

๐Ÿชณ What About Insects? ๐Ÿ

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar
is almost as valuable to the child
as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller


Start with what is right
rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka


True empathy is not self-focused but other-
oriented. Instead of making humanity
the measure of all things, we need to
evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans de Waal


The greater your capacity for love,
the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley




If honey bees die out,
humans will follow a few years later.

Albert Einstein



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

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

๐Ÿด All Life is Connected ๐ŸŒ

We're at war with nature.
If we win, we're lost.

Hubert Reeves


Eating animals has brought us to our knees
as a species. I think it's time to re-examine
our world in a way that doesn't abuse
other species.

Brian May


The concept of factory farming is one 
of our biggest failures as a species.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

Jo Frederiks

The fate of animals is more important to me
than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is
indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

ร‰mile Zola


Our fate is inextricably linked to the health and
resilience of the Earth and our fellow earthlings,
and when these are harmed and made to suffer,
so are we.

Gene Baur

The New Swiss Army Knife of the Future

In our hands now lies not only our own future,
but that of all other living creatures
with whom we share the Earth.

David Attenborough


The whole creation groans under the weight
of the evil we humans visit upon these
powerless creatures.

Tom Regan



We are the collateral damage of carnism;
we pay for it with our health,
our environment and our taxes.

Melanie Joy


Reality cannot be ignored except at a price;
and the longer the ignorance is persisted in,
the higher and more terrible becomes
the price that must be paid.

Aldous Huxley


Nothing will benefit human health and
increase the chances for survival of life on Earth
as much as the evolution to a vegan diet.
If the whole world adopts veganism,
it can change the destiny of humankind.

Albert Einstein


We are, quite literally, gambling with the future
of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers.

Peter Singer


Veganism is the 'single biggest way' to reduce
your environmental impact on the planet.

Joseph Poore


Man can no longer live for himself alone.
We must realize that all life is valuable
and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer


Every time you spend money you're casting
a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappรฉ

Palm Oil and Pollution


Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together
that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu


We are all victims of the violence that animals
suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw


Ironically, people will do anything to protect
their children, except protect the planet.

Khaled Bin Alwaleed


We are made wise not by the recollection
of our past, but by the responsibility
for our future.

George Bernard Shaw



I think that the Earth's immune system is trying
to get rid of us, as well it should.

Kurt Vonnegut


The destiny of animals cannot be separated
from the destiny of man, and the destiny
of man cannot be separated from
the destiny of all of nature.

Gregory Colbert


What will save us is not technology or science.
What will save us is the ethical
transformation of our society.

Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel


How we treat animals is powerfully connected
to our relationship with the world itself.

Nathalie Portman

In the Belly of the Beast

While we ourselves are the living graves
of murdered animals, how can we expect
any ideal living conditions on this Earth?

George Bernard Shaw