Sunday, August 31, 2025

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.


Friday, August 29, 2025

🍖 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


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

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Friendship

The only way to have a friend
is to be a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


#1: Give up the ideal.
#2: Stop dividing.
#3: Let your secrets out.
#4: Radical acceptance.


1. Be fake-friendly.
2. Make people feel bad about themselves.
3. Be possessive.
4. Buy your friends.
5. Move too fast.
6. Do too much.
7. Perform your friendship.
8. Don't be yourself.


Be civil to all;
serviceable to many;
familiar with few;
friend to one;
enemy with noone.

Benjamin Franklin


Associate yourself with people of good quality,
for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington


1. Jealousy.
2. Passive-aggressive behavior.
3. Malicious gossip.
4. Negative Nancy.
5. Drama queen.
6. Troublemaking.
7. Attention seeking.
8. Flirting.
9. Comparing & competing.
10. Exploitation.


If having a soul means being able to feel love
and loyalty and gratitude, then a lot of
animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot


When people show you who they are,
believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou


The key is to keep company only with people who
uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus


Attract what you want
by being what you want.

Buddha


- Visualize the kind of women you want to have in your life. Focus on how you're going to feel around them.
- Be alluring, kind and approachable.
- Listen to your intuition.


When you help someone up a hill,
you find yourself closer to the top.

Brownie Wise


You will never be as happy in any other way
as you will be when you know that
you are making others happy.

Napoleon Hill


Happy is the man who can make others better,
not merely when he is in their company,
but even when he is in their thoughts.

Seneca