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

Manifesting & Receiving

What you think you become.

What you feel you attract.

What you imagine you create.

Buddha

You become what you give your attention to.

Epictetus

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Great minds have purposes;

others have wishes.

Washington Irving

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend.

But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

Mother Teresa

The safest way to get what you want

is to deserve what you want.

Charlie T. Munger

Believing involves thinking, talking and acting

as though you have already received.

Mastin Kipp

He who is not contended with what he has,

would not be contended with what

he would like to have.

Socrates

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all others.

Cicero

Life is an echo.

What you send out, comes back.

What you sow, you reap.

What you give, you get.

What you see in others, exists in you.

Remember, life is an echo.

It always gets back to you.

So give goodness.

Zig Ziglar

What You Put Up With You End Up With

Take care to get what you like or

 you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

If you lie to yourself about your own pain,

you will be killed by those who will

claim you enjoyed it.

Alice Walker

A man is like a fraction whose numerator

is what he is and whose denominator

is what he thinks of himself. The larger

the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

- What is your why? What do you want?

- Are you aligned with your desires?

- How do you really feel about men?

- Do you honor your value?

- What are your non negotiables?

1. Responsibility.

2. Values & Character.

3. Emotional maturity.

4. An asset.

Do not chase chemistry over character.

Dèjàrae

- He should match your energy.

- Assertiveness.

- Secure.

- Motivated to pursue his purpose.

- Accountability.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man

of value. Look around at how people want to

get more out of life than they put in. A man

of value will give more than he receives.

Albert Einstein

All cruel people describe themselves

as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you.

You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

1. Dating men for their looks, money or status.

2. Believing words over actions.

3. Not being and acting by your values/words.

4. Trying to be someone else.

5. Negative thoughts and words.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone's effort is their direct reflection

of their interest in you.

Cody Bret

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

To know what people really think, observe

what they do, not what they say.

Descartes

An insecure person in a relationship is one of

the most dangeous beings on Earth. Don't

reinforce someone's insecurities by staying and

letting them control you. It might kill you.

Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

You must find the courage to leave the table

if respect is no longer being served.

Tene Edwards

You attract relationships that are aligned

with your current level of healing.

Mastin Kipp

A Feminine Impression - Q&A

🐵 Animals Like Us 😀

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham

I don't care whether they are capable of

thinking; all I care about is that they

are capable of suffering!

Jeremy Bentham

All beings tremble before violence. All fear

death. All love life. See yourself in others.

Then whom can you hurt?

What harm can you do?

Buddha

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

If you reach for a gun and shoot a bird - just like

that, for fun, for 'sport' - read these few sentences.

The birds we call turtledoves choose one partner.

For life. But when one of them is gone...

the other remains. Alone. In an immense

sadness that is difficult to describe.

David Attenborough

Animals are the main victims of history, and

the treatment of domesticated animals

in industrial farms is perhaps

the worst crime in history.

Yuval Noah Harari

The animals of the world exist for their own

reasons. They were not made for humans

any more than black people were made

for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

Animals suffer as much as we do.

True humanity does not allow us

to impose such sufferings on them.

Until we extend our circle of compassion to

all living beings, humanity will not find peace.

Albert Schweizer

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

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering

and death on other sentient beings for the trivial

reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is,

without a doubt, one of the most arrogant and

morally repugnant notions in the history

of human thought.

Gary L. Francione

Dear Vegetarians...

Jo Frederiks

To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Being vegan for me is about trying to live

a life where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

We're exploiting female bodies and abusing

the magic of female animals

to create eggs and milk.

Nathalie Portman

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Jo Frederiks

We've objectified certain animals so much

that we refer to them as 'livestock'.

'Stock' that just so happens to be alive.

An inconvenience that they were

even alive to begin with.

Ed Winters