Emotional Intelligence 🪷

All that we are is the result

of what we have thought.

Buddha

Better keep yourself clean and bright:

you are the window through which

you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Most people are other people. Their thoughts

are someone else's opinions, their lives

a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

The body benefits from movement,

and the mind benefits from stillness.

Sakyong Mipham

Instinct guides the animal better than the man.

In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray

by his reason and intelligence.

Denis Diderot

If a man thinks badly of you then he is worse

than you, those who are better than you

just don't care about you.

Nelson Mandela

You can't help what you feel,

but you can help how you behave.

Margaret Atwood

1. Identify the stressor.

2. Create a calming atmosphere.

3. Find an outlet for stress. Journal.

4. Boost physical health.

5. Practice relaxation techniques.

6. Reassess priorities and take action.

We cannot prevent birds from flying over

our heads, but we can keep them from

making nests on top of our heads.

Leo Tolstoy

1. Take a day off.

2. Do not engage in arguments and negative talk.

3. Remove negative influences.

4. Prayer and meditation.

5. Sleep and take care of yourself.

Your mind is like a garden - unless you

cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish.

Brian Tracy

1. Balance your day.

2. Find mindful practices that work for you.

3. Progress over perfection.

4. Never underestimate five minutes.

5. Ask yourself: Is this something I can control?

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear

understanding of one principle.

Some things are within your control.

And some things are not.

Epictetus

Freedom is what you do

with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire,

Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

Ogden Nash

Feelings are for the soul

what food is for the body.

Rudolf Steiner

- Identify your triggers. Journal.

- Don't make decisions when you're emotional.

- Don't be a drama queen. 

- Don't tell. Journal.

- Don't bring your emotions to work.

- Don't try to bring other people down to your emotional level.

- Don't post on social media when you're emotional. 

- You reap what you sow even if you're trying to hide your identity while doing it.

Speak when you are angry and you will

make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

A Feminine Impression - Emotional Maturity

- Acknowledge your physical reactions to your feelings.

- Calm yourself down. Take deep breaths. Relax.

- Avoid being sarcastic.

- Create an emotional strategy before things happen.

- Take care of your health. Eat well, get enough sleep, exercise regularly.

- Avoid toxic situations, people and places.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble.

Pride is what keeps us there.

Mark Twain

A burning passion coupled with absolute

detachment is the key to all success.

Mahatma Gandhi

A Feminine Impression - Butterfly Mail

Emotional triggers

- How do you want people to experience you?

- Decide ahead of time how you're going to act in difficult situations.

- Set a time limit. Have an exit strategy. End the conversation first.

The mind unconsciously loves problems

because they give an identity of sorts.

This is normal, and it is insane.

Eckhart Tolle

1. Connect the dots.

2. See things clarly.

3. Feed your voice of reason.

4. Self-awareness.

5. Repeat to rewire.

6. Subconscious processing.

We do not learn from experience...

we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Never argue with stupid people.

They will drag you down to their level

and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

People search for, interpret, and favor

information in a way that confirms

or supports their existing beliefs.

Jonah Berger

Know how to listen, and you will profit

even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

If anyone can show me, and prove to me,

that I am wrong in thought or deed,

I will gladly change. I seek the truth,

which never yet hurt anybody. It is only

persistence in self-delusion and ignorance

which does harm.

Marcus Aurelius

The superior person is calm and composed;

the lesser person is continuously

worried and distressed.

Confucius

Kindness is like snow - It beautifies

everything it covers.

Khalil Gibran

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters

will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Cato the Elder

The mind must have relaxation, and will rise

stronger and keener after recreation.

Seneca

🐶 Why Love One But Kill and Eat the Other? 🐷

We send one species to the butcher and

give our love and kindness to another

apparently for no reason other than

because it's the way things are.

Melanie Joy

Jo Frederiks

Compassion towards animals is so natural to us,

that only through conditioning could we become

callous towards their suffering and death.

Leo Tolstoy

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

True compassion is not just an emotional

response but a firm commitment

founded on reason.

Dalai Lama

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken

or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else

to hurt them for me.

Peter Dinklage

If you've ever loved a cat or a dog,

or even a human, I hope you'll extend

your compassion to include all animals.

Mike White

The soul given to each of us is moved by

the same living spirit that moves the Universe.

Albert Einstein

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

Jo Frederiks

If you choose to eat animals…

 you love pets, not animals.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own

lies becomes unable to recognize truth,

either in himself or in anyone else,

and he ends up losing respect

for himself and for others.

When he has no respect for anyone, he can

no longer love, and in order to divert himself,

having no love in him, he yields to impulses,

indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure.

And it all comes from lying -

lying to others and to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

My heart broke when I pictured my little dog

experiencing even a second of the pain and

fear that factory-farmed animals feel

their entire lives.

Nikki Glaser

The idea that some lives matter less is

the root of all that is wrong in the world.

Paul Farmer

Why should the law refuse its protection to any

sentient being? The time will come when

humanity will extend its mantle over

everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham

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

Selective compassion is a deformity of the mind.

Mohanji

Love is life. All,

everything that I understand,

I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

Speciesism is a failure to empathize

with those outside one's group.

Joan Dunayer

Human beings see oppression vividly

when they are the victims. Otherwise

they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility

to deal with all species with kindness, love and

compassion. What these animals suffer through

human cruelty is beyond understanding.

Please help to stop this madness.

Richard Gere

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?

Personal branding

- 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?

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 gain the strength of

the temptations we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

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

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

The only person with whom you have to

compare yourself is you in the past.

Sigmund Freud

In order to love yourself,

you must behave in ways that you admire.

Irvin D. Yalom

The path is the goal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be humble, hungry and

the hardest worker in any room.

Dwayne Johnson

You were Designed for Influence

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

The greatest gift you have to give

is that of your own self-transformation.

Lao Tzu

I believe that we are all creative beings and

that you were placed here on this earth

to create something of value to the world.

Something that will help others break free,

something that lights you up with passion

and something that is larger than just you.

Mastin Kipp

The only questions that really matter

are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Recognize that your birth was a response to

the world's requirements, not solely

your own wishes.

Epictetus

The purpose of life is not to be happy.

It is to be useful, to be honorable,

to be compassionate, to have it make some

difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not the key to happiness.

Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing,

you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

What you do makes a difference, and you have to

decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Champions are made from something they have

deep inside of them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life consists not in holding good cards

but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

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

Everything that's happened in your life

up until now has been preparing you to live

your purpose. These have been lessons and now

it's your time to step into your purpose and make

your mark. You are stronger than your

circumstances and what other people say.

There is something within you that is

only yours to give. Give us all you've got.

Mastin Kipp

A burning passion coupled with absolute

detachment is the key to all success.

Mahatma Gandhi

Find out what makes you kinder,

what opens you up and brings out

the most loving, generous,

and unafraid version of you,

and go after those things

as if nothing else matters.

George Saunders

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

Think about what your skills are, and what you

enjoy doing, or what you're good at and

employ those specific skills to make

the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur

🔪From Slaughter to Sanctuary ❤️

We are all better off in a sanctuary 

instead of in a slaughterhouse.

Gene Baur

Be the one to break the chain

and bring the change.

Jyoti Chauhan

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

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

The secret of change is to focus all of 

your energy, not on fighting the old,

but on building the new.

Socrates

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

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

Awaken to Your Destiny

You are not a drop in the ocean;

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

The universe experiences itself through you

for a brief moment called life.

Eckhart Tolle

Jo Frederiks

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

Pursuing self-esteem can be motivating,

but other sources of motivation, such as

goals that are good for the self and others,

can provide the same motivation

without the costs.

Jennifer Crocker & Lora Park

I believe that we are all creative beings and

that you were placed here on this earth

to create something of value to the world.

Something that will help others break free,

something that lights you up with passion and

something that is larger than just you.

Mastin Kipp

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and

go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

The thing about real life is that important events

don't announce themselves... Usually something

that is going to change your whole life is

a memory before you can stop and

be impressed about it.

Edith Schaeffer

The really important kind of freedom involves

attention, and awareness, and discipline, and

effort, and being able truly to care about other

people and to sacrifice for them, over and over,

in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction

ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Naeem Callaway

The greatest gift you have to give

is that of your own self-transformation.

Lao Tzu

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got a hold of for the moment and

I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

Service to others is the rent you pay

for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

Life's most important and urgent question is:

what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to live a happy life,

tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Albert Einstein

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue, and it only does so as the side

effect of one's personal dedication to a cause

greater than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Everything that's happened in your life

up until now has been preparing you

to live your purpose. These have been lessons

and now it's your time to step into your purpose

and make your mark. You are stronger than

your circumstances and what other people say.

There is something within you that is only

yours to give. Give us all you've got.

Mastin Kipp