Attraction over Promotion 🏵️

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

We change the world not by what we say or do

but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

By choosing ourselves, we are creating

an image of what human beings should be.

Jean Paul Sartre

The world is changed by your example,

not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs

not on the basis of proof but on the basis of

what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

It is the best decision I've ever made

and I've enjoyed it so much more

than I could have ever expected.

It feels good to do the right thing.

Lucy Watson

It's the best decision I have ever made.

For my health and for the world and

for the sake of decency and compassion.

Paul Wesley

Let your life be your argument.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have met who has gone vegan

says it is the best decision they have ever made.

Lewis Hamilton

Being vegan is the right thing for yourself

and for the planet and animals.

Lenny Kravitz

Becoming vegan was the biggest change I ever 

made in my life, and one of the greatest

accomplishments as well.

Woody Harrelson

I am not going to teach it unless I live it.

John C. Maxwell

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh

My goal is to bring people together through

good food without harming animals.

Omari McQueen

Food is our common ground,

a universal experience.

James Beard

If we begin with ourselves and do the things that

we need to do and become the best person

we can be, we have a much better chance

of changing the world for the better.

Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do

what I believe is right. That's powerful.

Alicia Silverstone

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

My Personal Choice

It is our choice of good or evil

that determines our character,

not our opinion about good or evil.

Aristotle

What do your choices say about you?

In matters of conscience,

the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi

A great number of our decisions are not

really our own but are suggested to us from

the outside; we have succeeded in persuading

ourselves that it is we who made the decision,

whereas we have actually conformed with

expectations of others, driven by the fear

of isolation and by threats to our comfort.

Erich Fromm

The content of your character is your choice.

Day by day, what you choose, what you think

and what you do is who you become.

Heraclitus

Jo Frederiks

It is not what we think or feel that makes us

who we are. It's what we do. Or fail to do.

Jane Austen

The thinking person must oppose all cruel

customs, no matter how deeply rooted

in tradition and surrounded by a halo.

When we have a choice, we must

avoid bringing torment and injury

into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind

of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

We all have choices to make. I choose to love,

to be conscious of what I'm supporting

and I refuse to support the companies

killing and torturing animals.

Lewis Hamilton

It's not your personal choice

when there are victims involved.

Asking vegans to respect your choice

to eat animals is on par with asking feminists

to respect sexists, asking people of color

to respect racists and asking homosexuals

to respect homophobes. It is ludicrous to think

that difference in opinion warrants mutual

respect, when the opposing opinion

in question appropriates suffering,

defends oppression and encourages

the continuance of exploitation.

Felix Sampson

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

What we think, or what we know, or what we

believe is, in the end, of little consequence.

The only consequence is what we do.

John Ruskin

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

If your choices are beautiful,

so too will you be.

Epictetus

🐶 Adopt, Don't Shop 🐈🐕

Saving one animal won't change the world,

but it will change the world for that one animal.

You can tell a lot about people

by the way they treat their pets.

Frank Sonnenberg

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living

creatures on the planet, I can be kinder

to every living creature in my life.

River Phoenix

It is more important to prevent suffering,

rather than sit to contemplate the evils

of the universe.

Buddha

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,

quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure

love and always have to mix love and hate.

Sigmund Freud

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.

Sathya Sai Baba

I marvelled at how two souls - two completely

different species - could make each other

so happy. If you were kind to animals,

they repaid that kindness thousandfold.

People disappointed; animals never did.

Alan Brennert

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and

comrade without further introduction.

Mark Twain

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Rumi

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

The more I learn about people,

the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

Dogs are our link to paradise.

Milan Kundera

 A woman is the full circle.

Within her is the power to create,

nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild

There is no happiness like that of being loved

by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that

your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Charlotte Brontë

To heal is to touch with love that

which we previously touched with fear.

Stephen Levine

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary

of God in this world.

Suzanne Curchod

Until one has loved an animal a part

of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

The dog is between the child and the angel

in terms of mentality, heart and feeling.

Anthony of Curtis

Write Your Own Story 🪷

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.

You feel lonely not because nobody

is with you but because you are

not with you.

Shams Tabrizi

- 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

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de tvingar dig att gå

där du inga fotspår

har att lita på.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de gör all skam till din.

Du får söka tillflykt

lite längre in.

Det som hela världen dömer

reder sig ibland rätt väl.

Fågelfri var mången,

vann sin egen själ.

Den som tvingas ut i vildskog

ser med nyfödd syn på allt,

och han smakar tacksam

livets bröd och salt.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

när de bryter bort ditt skal.

Verklighet och kärna

blir ditt enda val.

Karin Boye

The Art of Conversation

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes

and but one tongue to the end that we should

hear and see more than we speak.

Socrates

Every word has consequences.

Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The more you discipline yourself,

the less you will be disciplined by others.

Napoleon Hill

I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow.

Easy doesn't make you think.

Madonna

Change happens by listening and then

starting a dialogue with the people who are

doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall

If animals could speak, mankind would weep.

Anthony Douglas

Love your enemies, for they tell you you faults.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the most sincere forms of respect is

actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

People are taught how to speak,

but their major concern

should be how to keep silent.

Leo Tolstoy

1. Your plans. Move in silence.

2. Your finances.

3. Your love life.

4. Someone else's confidential information (malicious gossip).

5. Your drama.

6. Your controversial views (religion, politics, social taboos).

7. Your good deeds.

Three can keep a secret,

if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

It is better to be king of your silence

than a slave of your words.

William Shakespeare

A fool is known by his speech;

and a wise man by silence.

Pythagoras

Wise men speak because they have something

to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

Strong minds discuss ideas,

average minds discuss events,

weak minds discuss people.

Socrates

If you propose to speak always ask yourself,

is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Buddha

He who speaks, sows. He who listens, collect.

Pythagoras

Think before you speak, read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are

cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Opinion is really the lowest form of human

knowledge. It requires no accountability, no

understanding. The highest form of knowledge

is empathy, for it requires us to suspend

our egos and live in another's world.

Bill Bullard

You can tell more about a person by what

he says about others than you can by

what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn

1. Jokes about something that is true and sensitive.

2. Jokes with your opinions that are not positive.

3. Sarcasm that goes too far (if the person does not understand that you're being sarcastic). 

4. Jokes about stereotypes (racial/stereotypes/sexist/groups of people).

5. Vulgar jokes (sexist/sex/toilet humor/swearing).

6. Self-deprecating humor.

7. A badly told joke (storytelling - how the build-up process works. Work with pauses).

Nothing shows a man's character

more than what he laughs at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you think your belief is based upon reason,

you will support it by argument rather than

by persecution, and will abandon it if

the argument goes against you.

But if your belief is based upon faith,

you will realize that argument is useless,

and will therefore resort to force.

Bertrand Russell

Listen with the intent to understand,

not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Samuel Becket

There is an almost universal tendency, to suspect

the good faith of a man who holds opinions

that differ from our own opinions. It obviously

endangers the freedom and objectivity of our

discussion if we attack a person instead of

attacking an opinion, or more precisely, a theory.

Karl Popper

I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless

I can state the arguments against my position

better than the people who are in opposition.

I am qualified to speak only when

I've reached that state.

Charlie Munger

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The greatest thing in the world is not so much

where we stand as in what direction

we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but

people will never forget how you made dem feel.

Maya Angelou

In order for the truth to be heard, it must

be spoken with love. No matter how wise

and true a spoken word will not be conveyed

to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

Friends

True friends are families which you can select.

Audrey Hepburn

Right now you may not be where you intended

to be, but it's where you need to be in order

to get where you want to go.

Steven Aitchison

The most we can hope for is to create

the best possible conditions for success,

then let go of the outcome.

The ride is a lot more fun that way.

Phil Jackson

We are disturbed not by what happens to us,

but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Epictetus

What you want is deliberately placed

out of reach so that you can become

the person it takes to obtain it.

 

Mastin Kipp

The same wall that keeps out your

disappointment also keeps out the sunlight

of enriching experiences. So let life touch you.

Jim Rohn

The longer you wait, the bigger the prize.

George Bernard Shaw

People grow when they are loved well.

If you want to help others heal,

love them without an agenda.

Mike McHargue

You may never know what results come

of your actions, but if you do nothing,

there will be no results.

Mahatma Gandhi

All rivers and some people are crooked

because they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill

The only constant in life is change.

Heraclitus

Success is not final, failure is not fatal:

it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill