Thursday, May 21, 2026

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


- 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


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


Wednesday, May 20, 2026

🪳 What About Insects? 🐝

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar
is almost as valuable to the child
as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller


Start with what is right
rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka



True empathy is not self-focused but other-
oriented. Instead of making humanity
the measure of all things, we need to
evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans de Waal


The greater your capacity for love,
the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley




If honey bees die out,
humans will follow a few years later.

Albert Einstein



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

Sunday, May 17, 2026

💞 Holy Cow 🐄

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


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


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


 If we could live happy and healthy lives
without harming others,
why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern


Animals are my friends...
and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw



What we call love is in its essence
reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer


This image was taken on a "kill line" inside
a slaughterhouse... My heart is
irreparably broken.

Sande Seldman Nosonowitz


Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least
don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama


Create all the happiness you are able to create;
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Every day will allow you, will invite you to
add something to the pleasure of others,
or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham



Man is as much a parasite on the cow
as the tapeworm is on man.

Milan Kundera




To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is
to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Animals have personalities like people.
Walt Disney


In every living being there is the desire for love.
D.H. Lawrence


A mother's love does not derive from
the intellect but from the emotions,
in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides


Now I can look at you in peace;
I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka


In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved, how gently you
lived, and how gracefully you let go
of things not meant for you.

Buddha

Saturday, May 16, 2026

How CD Controls Your Life

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

Jo Frederiks

No man is capable of causing great evil
without thinking he's doing the right thing.

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


People seldom do what they believe in.
They do what is convenient.

Bob Dylan



It's troubling when people get upset with vegans
for pointing out the suffering, rather than
getting upset with themselves for causing it.

Jo Tyler


Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung


Those who lack the courage will always
find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus


Psychologically speaking, one may say that
the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does
he want to appear virtuous before others,
he wants to convince himself... Only
the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt


I cannot conceive of a greater loss
than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi


It is not what we eat but what we digest
that makes us strong;
not what we gain but what we save
that makes us rich;
not what we read but what we remember
that makes us learned; and
not what we profess but what we practice
that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon


Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions
based on values rather than personal gain.

Chris Karcher


To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest
thing in the world is to act in accordance
with your thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's
defensiveness is the result of selfishness or
apathy, when in fact it is much more
likely the result of systematic and
intensive social conditioning.

Melanie Joy


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar
is almost as valuable to the child
as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller


Happiness is when what you think,
what you say and what you do
are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi


If a man aspires towards a righteous life,
his first act of abstinence is
from injury to animals.

Albert Einstein


The reward for doing right is mostly
an internal phenomen; self-respect,
dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Laura Schlessinger

Thursday, May 14, 2026

🐮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




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


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 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

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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

Sunday, May 10, 2026

🌸 Personal Evolution 🍒

The place between your comfort zone and
your dream is where your life takes place.

Helen Keller


There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubenstein


Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own
thing and work hard. The right people - the ones
who really belong in your life - will come to you.

Will Smith


Learning is the beginning of wealth.
Searching and learning is where the miracle
process all begins. The great breakthrough
in your life comes when you realize
that you can learn anything you need to learn
to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself.
These means there are no limits
on what you can be, have or do.

Albert Einstein


Once you stop learning you start dying.
Albert Einstein


A life spent making mistakes is not only
more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw


We do not learn from experience...
we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey


1. Boundaries.
2. Language.
3. Belief.
4. Stop gossiping.
5. Discipline.
6. Responsibility.
7. Spirituality.
8. Clothing style.
9. Stop giving unwanted advice.
10. Manage my daydreaming.
11. Kindness.
12. Gratitude.
13. Courage.
14. Generosity.
15. Cleanliness.
16. Apologize.
17. Drink water.

Education is not the learning of facts,
but training of the mind to think.

Albert Einstein


Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley


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


The measure of intelligence
is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein


1. Get a blow-dry.
2. Nurture your network.
3. Location, location, location...
4. Align yourself with what you want to attract.
5. Find a sport that you really enjoy.
6. Be open-minded.
7. Be passionate about something.


1. Change the narrative.
2. Embrace discomfort.
3. Don't compare yourself to others.

The only person with whom you have to
compare yourself is you in the past.

Sigmund Freud



The only constant in life is change.
Heraclitus


Respect life and life will respect you.
Love life and love will shower
blessings on you.

Rajneesh


Loving yourself is part of loving God.
Take care of the temple that houses your soul.
A well maintained body allows
the soul to live it's purpose fully.

Mastin Kipp




Compassion is the signature
of higher consciousness.

Amit Ray


Direction is more important than speed.
Richard L. Evans


1. Set boundaries and speak up.
2. Become the person you like.
3. Shift your thought patterns.
4. Choose self-care as a lifestyle.
5. Rejection is redirection.
6. There is no such thing as "falling behind".
7. Invest in your everyday life.



 A woman is the full circle.
Within her is the power to create,
nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild