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.

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

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

In order to love yourself,

you must behave in ways that you admire.

Irvin D. Yalom

Be humble, hungry and

the hardest worker in any room.

Dwayne Johnson

Certified 'Humane' & Other Lies

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of

dollars lying to the public about their product.

But no amount of false propaganda can

sanitise meat. The facts are absolutely clear.

Eating animals is bad for human health,

catastrophic for the environment and

a living nightmare for animals.

Chrissie Hynde

Jo Frederiks

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge

but an active aversion to knowledge,

the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice,

pride or laziness of mind.

Karl Popper

Consciously or subconsciously, it is with

deliberation that we do not know or fail

to understand - because incomprehension

allows us, with good conscience, to evade

unpleasant responsibilites, because

ignorance is the best excuse for going on

doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

Aldous Huxley

Most people are not seeking truth - they are

searching for comfort in illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As with any violent ideology, the populace must

be shielded from direct exposure to the victims,

lest they begin questioning the system or their

participation in it. This truth speaks for itself:

why else would the meat industry go to such

lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by

corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is that people are brainwashed into

thinking that it's normal to consume animals.

They are so uncomfortable with confronting

what happens to those animals because

they are part and parcel of that cruelty.

Juliet Gellatley

Unless and until you are prepared to look

at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,

if you want to look the other way or

if you want to play favourites, then

somewhere along the line you're going to

find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

COMFORTABLE LIES

Without ever committing an act of outright

evil ourselves, we collude with it

through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

What an amount of suffering the poor creatures

have to endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

Jo Frederiks

If slaughterhouses had glass walls,

everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Think occasionally of the suffering of which

you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

To examine whether something is 'humane',

first determine whether you would

want it done to you.

Andrea Kladar

The horrifying things that are happening

to animals in order for you to keep

eating meat is inhuman.

Lewis Hamilton

I have seen firsthand how injustice

gets overlooked when the victims are

powerless or vulnerable, when they have

no one to speak up for them and no means of

representing themselves to a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Harold S. Kushner

Highway to Hell

The greatest danger of lies is not that they

replace truth, but that they destroy our

ability to recognize truth at all,

leaving a society lost without direction.

Hannah Arendt

When the suffering of another creature causes

you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial

desire to flee from the suffering one, but

on the contrary, come closer, as close

as you can to him who suffers,

and try to help.

Leo Tolstoy

No man chooses evil because it is evil;

he only mistakes it for happiness,

the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Titanic

Never be afraid to try something new.

Remember that a lone amateur built the Arc.

A large group of professionals

built the Titanic.

Dave Berry

When the student is ready the teacher will

appear. When the student is truly ready

the teacher will dissappear.

Lao Tzu

Be an Activist

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

We must take sides. Neutrality helps

the oppressor, never the victim.

Silence encourages the tormentor,

never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind

of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

The world will not be destroyed by those

who do evil, but by those who watch

 them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein

There are many noteworthy examples of

ordinary evil in every culture and country

around the globe, but in terms of preventable

evil I am hard pressed to find any examples

that approach those systematically perpetrated

by humans against the members of other species.

Lawrence Pope

It is more important to prevent animal suffering,

rather than sit to contemplate the evils

of the universe.

Buddha

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression

and cruelty by the bad people but

the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

- Make a clear intention - how do I want to contribute to this world?

- Take a leap of faith. Don't let fear determine your actions.

- Personal branding & communication skills to reach as many as possible.

- Plant seeds. You never know what they will grow into.

- Use your strengths. Direct them towards your mission.

- Have a positive vibe. Nudge and be inclusive but always maintain a clear message.

You can also commit injustice

by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Jo Frederiks

A good person will resist an evil system

with his whole soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

It always seems impossible,

until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

An active minority always wins out

over a passive majority.

Robert Thompson

Our lives no longer belong to us alone:

they belong to all those who

need us desperately.

Eli Wiesel

I have seen firsthand how injustice

gets overlooked when the victims are

powerless or vulnerable, when they have

no one to speak up for them and no means of

representing themselves to a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

Terror becomes total when it becomes

independent of all opposition; it rules

supreme when nobody any longer stands

in its way. If lawfulness is the essence of

non-tyrannical government and lawlessness

is the essence of tyranny, then terror is

the essence of totalitarian domination.

Hannah Arendt

The problem is that humans have victimized

animals to such a degree that they are

not even considered victims.

They are not considered at all.

Gary Yourofsky

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,

you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu

People who say it cannot be done

should not interrupt those who are doing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who love peace must learn to organize

as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are many causes I would die for.

There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi

People working together in a strong community

with a shared goal and a common purpose

can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cloe Wade

The difference between what we do and what we

are capable of doing would suffice to solve

most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world;

indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

One has a moral responsibility

to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

What you want to ignite in others

must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Brontë

Just one candle can light another and can light

thousands of other candles, so one heart

illuminates another heart and can

illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

Many people, especially ignorant people,

want to punish you for speaking the truth,

for being correct, for being you.

Never apologize for being correct,

or for being years ahead of your time.

If you're right and you know it,

speak your mind.

Even if you are a minority of one,

the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Walk in Boldness and Courage

Give me the courage to follow my intuition with

trust even when I can't see the whole path.

Ignite my passion and show me the way

to serve others with my calling.

Mastin Kipp

To begin is the most important part of any quest

and by far the most courageous.

Plato

The way to change your mental and physical

state, is to take the action first, not wait

for your emotional state to change first.

Rich Roll

Iron rusts from disuse: water loses its purity

from stagnation... even so does inaction

sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

A ship is always safe at the shore,

but that is not what it is built for.

Albert Einstein

A man who fears suffering is already

suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

1. Give your obstacles a score.

2. Keep asking yourself why until you get to the bottom of it.

3. Start small.

4. Set yourself up for success. Attach your new habit to an already existing habit.

You don't have to be great to start,

but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

Take the first step in faith.

You don't have to see the whole staircase,

just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now.

The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs

and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

But he, who dares not grasp the thorn

Should never crave the rose.

Anne Brontë

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Courage is the commitment to begin

without any guarantee of success.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning,

not possession but the act of getting there,

which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The sated day is never first.

The best day is a day of thirst.

Yes - there is goal and meaning in our path -

but it's the way that is the labour's worth.

Karin Boye

As you start to walk on the way,

the way appears.

Rumi

Do what you can, with what you have,

where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Doing what needs to be done may not

make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage is the most important of all the virtues

because without courage, you can't practice

any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

Life shrinks or expands

in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Right to Rescue

Never, never be afraid to do what's right,

especially if the well-being of a person

or animal is at stake. Society's punishments

are small compared to the wounds we inflict

on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jo Frederiks

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur

in laboratories and are called medical research.

George Bernard Shaw

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All

the scientific discoveries stained with innocent

blood I count as of no consequence.

Mahatma Gandhi

What I think about vivisection is that if people

admit that they have the right to take the life

of living beings for the benefit of many,

there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

River Phoenix

Vivisection is a social evil because if it

advances human knowledge, it does so

at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Whether we exploit animals to eat, wear, to

entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal

rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan

The greatest danger to a society is not rebellion,

but the gradual acceptance of injustice.

Gustave Le Bone

One has a moral responsibility

to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

The problem is that humans have

victimized animals to such a degree

that they are not even considered victims.

They are not considered at all.

Gary Yourofsky

The assumption that animals are without

rights and the illusion that our treatment

of them has no moral significance is a

positively outrageous example of human

crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion

is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence

does not entitle one human to use another

for his or her own ends, how can it entitle

humans to exploit non-humans?

Peter Singer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

the world to himself. Therefore all progress

depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

The day may come when the rest of the animal

creation acquire those rights which never

could have been withholden from them

but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham

A basic fact about nonviolent resistence is

that it is based on the conviction that

the universe is on the side of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There can be no doubt as to which side is right

and which side is wrong, for compassionate

defense of life is a force of good and sadistic

mass destruction of life is a force for evil.

Paul Watson

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If saving a life can make you a criminal,

something is deeply broken.

Joaquin Phoenix

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect,

won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

George Bernard Shaw

Vivisection is a crime.

Victor Hugo

We are here, not because we are law-breakers;

we are here in our efforts to become

lawmakers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Why should the law refuse its protection to any

sensitive being? The time will come when

humanity will extend its mantle

over everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin