🐮Not Your Mother - Not Your Milk 🐄

We're taught as children that milk

comes from cows when in reality,

milk comes from mothers.

Preacher Lawson

Jo Frederiks

It is my firm conviction that man need take

no milk at all, beyond the mother's

milk that he takes as a baby.

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

Man is as much a parasite on the cow

as the tapeworm is on man.

Milan Kundera

We know things about her that no one should

ever know, or want to know, about a fellow

being... the taste, texture and flavor of every

aspect of her despair, degradation and defeat.

We know every detail of what we have forced

her to be - an object to consume and excrete.

What we don't know, what we don't want to

know, is what we must know if we are

to restore our own humanity: who she is.

Joanna Lucas

Man has made the Earth a Hell for animals.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The dairy industry tried to convince you

for 20 years that milk was good for you.

It's a lie, but they tried anyway.

Steve Jobs

Whiteness rests upon a foundational premise:

the definition of white as the norm or standard

for human, and people of color

as the deviation from that norm.

Robin DiAngelo

Humans are the only animals that drink

the milk of the mother of another species.

All other animals stop drinking milk

altogether after weaning.

Michael Klaper

Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man

wrong; And as the butcher takes away the calf

And binds the wretch, and beats him when he

strays, Bearing him to the bloody slaughter-

house, Even so remorseless have they borne him

hence; And as the dam runs lowing up and

down, Looking the way her harmless young

went, And can do nought but wail

her darling's loss.

William Shakespeare

A mother's love does not derive from

the intellect but from the emotions,

in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

We're exploiting female bodies and abusing

the magic of female animals to create milk.

Nathalie Portman

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not

consume dairy and egg products, because they

are products of the meat industry. If we stop

consuming, they will stop producing. Only

collective awakening can create enough

determination for action.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing

creatures; none show more passionate

tenderness to their young when deprived

of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed

to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas de Quincey

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To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jo Frederiks

If one person is unkind to an animal

it is considered to be cruelty,

but if a lot of people are unkind to animals

(especially in the name of profit)

the cruelty is condoned and will be defended

by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

Men are the devils of the earth,

and the animals are its tormented souls.

Arthur Schopenhaur

If God condones what we do to animals

- then what does the Devil do?

Gary Yourofsky

Make a habit of two things: to help;

or at least to do no harm.

Hippocrates

Being vegan for me is about trying to live

a life where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

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

Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and

watch. In a consumer-driven society our

individual choices, used collectively for

the good of animals, can change

the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Veganism isn't just about what's on your plate.

Compassion is a lifestyle.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

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Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.

Anthony Douglas Williams

It may be suggested by some books that it is not

a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our

own hearts - more clearly than in any book -

that we should take pity on animals

in the same way as we do on humans.

Leo Tolstoy

For if animals are God's creatures, we have no

absolute rights over them, only the duty to look

after them as God would look after them.

To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of

ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are

to honor life for the sake of the Lord of the life.

Andrew Linzey

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation,

and have treated our distant cousins in fur

and feathers so badly that beyond doubt,

if they were able to formulate a religion,

they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Gods created certain kinds of beings

to replenish our bodies; they are the trees

and the plants and the seeds.

Plato

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy

to be heard by what is above him when he

shows no mercy to those under his power?

Pierre Troubetzkoy

Where love is, there God is also.

Mahatma Gandhi

'Thou shall not kill' does not apply to murder of

one's own kind only, but to all living beings;

and this Commandment was inscribed in

the human heart long before it was

proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no religion without love, and people may

talk as much as they like about their religion,

but if it does not teach them to be kind

to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.

Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we

would wish them to treat us, were any

other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers

the blessings of God, the Compassionate,

if we in turn will not practice elemantary

compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

No God would be a slave master,

a torturer and a killer of his animals, his babies.

If he was, then he would not be God.

He would be the Devil.

Gary Yourofsky

Those who are merciful will be shown mercy

by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those

on the earth and the One in the heavens

will have mercy on you.

Mishkat al-Masabih: Book 6, Chapter 7, 8:178

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is

the means of realising him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man worships an invisible God

and destroys a visible Nature.

Unaware that this Nature he's destroying

is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves

Be kind to all creatures.

This is the true religion.

Buddha

Ajar Setiadi

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People say they love animals

and yet harm them nontheless;

I'm glad those people don't love me.

Marc Bekoff

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs

of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

Many people have ideas on how others

should change; few people have ideas

on how they should change.

Leo Tolstoy

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Alan Watts

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

If you think being a quaker is easy,

you're not doing it right.

Benjamin Lay

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals;

I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

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 longer I live, the more convinced am I that

this planet is used by other planets

as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

If a group of beings from another planet were to

land on Earth - beings who considered themselves

as superior to you as you feel yourself to be

to other animals - would you concede them

the rights over you that you assume

over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them

as we would wish them to treat us, were

any other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

The Warrior 🛡️

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.

Adversity is the trial of principle.

Henry Fielding

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

How we treat the vulnerable

is how we define ourselves.

Russell Brand

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our

children. We cannot forgive them for

forcing us to kill their children.

Golda Meir

Don't expect justice where might is right.

Plato

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

People seem good while they are oppressed,

but they only wish to become oppressors in

their turn: life is nothing but a competition

to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

I object to violence because when it appears

to do good, the good is only temporary;

the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi

A gem cannot be polished without friction,

nor a man perfected without trials.

Seneca

If you don't stand for something

you will fall for anything.

Malcolm X

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

It can ruin you life only if it ruins your character.

Marcus Aurelius

Peace will come when the Arabs will love

their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Phil McGraw

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Plato

There are many causes I would die for.

There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi

War does not determine who is right -

only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

God and Satan alike are essentially human

figures, the one a projection of ourselves,

the other of our enemies.

Bertrand Russell

Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct

toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide

things into two distinct groups... Good versus

bad... It is simple and intuitive, and also

dramatic because it implies conflict,

and we do it without thinking, all the time.

Hans Rosling

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Carl Jung

You can chain me, you can torture me,

you can even destroy this body,

but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

The man who has no inner life

is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri-Frédérik Amiel

When the student is ready the teacher will

appear. When the student is truly ready

the teacher will dissappear.

Lao Tzu

Nothing happens to any man which

he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

We are only as strong as we are united,

as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;

separated from law and justice

he is the worst.

Aristotle

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

God grant me the serenity to accept the things

I cannot change, the courage to change

the things I can, and the wisdom

to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

People are sent to teach you.

If you don't learn you'll keep

making the same mistake.

Learn the lesson and be free.

Mastin Kipp

We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

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To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

Evil comes from a failure to think.

It defies thought for as soon as thought

tries to engage itself with evil

and examine the premises and principles

from which it originates,

it is frustrated because it finds nothing there.

That is the banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

I try to encourage people to think for themselves,

to question standard assumptions... Don't take

assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a

skeptical attitude toward anything that is

conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself.

Be willing to ask questions about what

is taken for granted. Try to think

things through for yourself.

Noam Chomsky

It is impossible for a man to learn

what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

Many are destined  to reason wrongly; others,

not to reason at all; and others to persecute

those who do reason.

Voltaire

Those who will not reason, are bigots,

those who cannot, are fools,

and those who dare not, are slaves.

Lord Byron

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

As well the minds which are prevented from

changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You were not made to live as brutes,

but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Let me give you a definition of ethics:

it is good to maintain and further life

it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Albert Schweitzer

Two percent of the people think.

Three percent of the people think they think.

And ninty-five percent of the people

would rather die than think.

George Bernard Shaw

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't worry about siding for or against

the majority. Worry about taking up

any of their irrational beliefs.

Marcus Aurelius

It is difficult to get a man to understand

something when his salary depends on

his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Humans lack humanity, not protein.

Eddie Mah

Everyone "loves" animals until they hear

the word "vegan". Then they'll argue tooth

and nail why it's acceptable to abuse them.

Rob Zombie

All the arguments to prove man's superiority

cannot shatter this hard fact:

in suffering the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

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 indifference, callousness and contempt

that so many people exhibit toward animals

is evil first because it results in great suffering

in animals, and second because it results in

an incalculably great impoverishment

of the human spirit.

Albert Einstein

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures

is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them:

that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

Self Love 💝

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.

Brené 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?

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- 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

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. Education.

2. Awareness.

3. Detachment.

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 honor your word? Do you keep your promises to yourself and to others?

- Do you respect yourself and your choices?

- How do you treat yourself, your body, your belongings and others?

- Write down what you want to change and what you'll do instead.

- Have a visual reminder. Remind yourself.

- 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

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline;

the sense of dignity grows with

the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Pythagoras

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.

- 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

The only person with whom you have to

compare yourself is you in the past.

Sigmund Freud

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

Learn the rules like a pro,

so you can break them as an artist.

Pablo Picasso

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

- 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