Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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


Habits are the way you embody identity.
True behavior change is really identity change.

James Clear


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

Body Language

Body language is more powerful than words.
Ricky Gervais





- The art of eye contact.
- To be engaged is to be tuned in into every little movement and sound a person makes and how that plays into the words they're saying.
- To respect a person is to acknowledge that person and be engaged.
- Lean in. Speak clearly.
- While you're speaking, lose yourself in the person's face.


1. Being your worst self in public.
2. Being overly sexual.
3. Masculine body language cues.
a) Hunching
b) Legs spread apart.
c) Masculine gestures.
4. Masculine intonation when you speak.
5. Desperate look.
6. Stone cold.
7. Be feminine.


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia


1. Posture. Straighten your back. Shoulders back. Chest up. Elongate your neck.
2. Soft movement.
3. Elongate your body. Hold both legs together.
4. Expose your neck.
5. Pose: Place your leg in front of you and push your hip out.
6. Slower body movements.
7. Tilt your head and nod.


1. Eye contact.
2. Open posture.
3. Smile genuinely.


1. Natural posture.
2. The agreement.
3. Hands.
4. Head.
5. Speed.
6. Smile.
7. Eye contact.




Your body language shapes who you are.
Amy Cuddy

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

You Are What You Eat

When we eat factory-farmed animals we live,
literally, on tortured flesh.
Increasingly, that tortured flesh
is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer


I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who
is raised to be eaten, and who never has
chance to be a real being, is unhealthy.
It's like... you're just eating misery.

Alice Walker


I do feel that spiritual progress does demand...
that we should cease to kill our fellow
creatures for the satisfaction
of our bodily wants.

Mahatma Gandhi


I refuse to eat animals because
I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings
and by the death of other creatures.

Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz


The earth affords a lavish supply of richess
of innocent foods, and offers you banquets
that involve no bloodshed or slaughter.

Pythagoras


Worthless people live to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink to live.

Socrates


Veganism is not a diet.
It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman


We must realize that all life is valuable
and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer


Veganism has given me a higher level of
awareness and spirituality, primary because
the energy associated with eating has shifted...
by putting things into your body that violate
its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate
that violence onto someone else.

Dexter Scott King


You become what you think.
You are what you eat.

Barbara Cartland


The basis of all animal rights should be
the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we
would wish them to treat us, were any
other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens


To feed on death is to become food for death.
To live by other's pain is to become a prey
for pain. So has decreed the omni-will.
Know that and choose your course.

Mikhail Naimy


They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
Friedrich Nietzsche


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


There is no religion without love, and people may
talk as much as they like about their religion,
but if it does not teach them to be kind
to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell


The eating of animals extinguishes
the seed of great compassion.

Buddha

Monday, January 19, 2026

Be on the Right Side of History

Man is an animal with primary instincts
of survival. Consequently his ingenuity
has developed first and his soul afterwards.
The progress of science is far ahead
of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin


Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,
which is the goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming all other
living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Edison


Socrates (c. 470-399 BC)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Buddha (c. 5th to 4th century BCE)
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


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 wrongfulness, the immorality of eating
animals has been recognized by all mankind
during all the conscious life of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy


Wrong does not cease to be wrong
because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy


All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Insanity in individuals is something rare -
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche


If you want to know where you would have
stood on slavery before the Civil War,
don't look at where you stand on slavery today.
Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson


'Never again' is not about what others shouldn't
do to us. It is about what we shouldn't do
to others. 'Never again' means that we must
never again perpetrate mass atrocities
against other living beings.

Alex Hershaft


Our grandchildren will ask us one day:
Where were you during the Holocaust
of the animals? What did you do against
those horrifying crimes? We won't be
able to offer the same excuse for
the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

Albert Schweitzer

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


As long as there are slaughterhouses
there will be battlefields.

Leo Tolstoy


I'm in favor of animal rights as well as human
rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln



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


Man's inhumanity to man is only
surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

George Bernard Shaw


Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality, tied in a single garment
of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Every man is a creature of the age in which
he lives and few are able to raise themselves
above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire


The systematic torture of sentient beings,
whatever the pretext and in whatever form,
cannot achieve anything more than it
already has: to show us what is the lowest
point of debasement man can reach.

Joaquin Phoenix


One day the absurdity of the almost universal
human belief in the slavery of other animals
will be palpable. We shall then have
discovered our souls and become
worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God's Creatures 🐄🐑🦃🐓🐠🐖

Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.
Anthony Douglas Williams


It may be suggested by some books that it is not
a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our
own hearts - more clearly than in any book -
that we should take pity on animals
in the same way as we do on humans.

Leo Tolstoy


For if animals are God's creatures, we have no
absolute rights over them, only the duty to look
after them as God would look after them.
To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of
ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are
to honor life for the sake of the Lord of the life.

Andrew Linzey


We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation,
and have treated our distant cousins in fur
and feathers so badly that beyond doubt,
if they were able to formulate a religion,
they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge


If God condones what we do to animals -
then what does the Devil do?

Gary Yourofsky


The Gods created certain kinds of beings
to replenish our bodies; they are the trees
and the plants and the seeds.

Plato


Why should man expect his prayer for mercy
to be heard by what is above him when he
shows no mercy to those under his power?

Pierre Troubetzkoy


Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi


'Thou shall not kill' does not apply to murder of
one's own kind only, but to all living beings;
and this Commandment was inscribed in
the human heart long before it was
proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy



There is no religion without love, and people may
talk as much as they like about their religion,
but if it does not teach them to be kind
to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell


I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi


The basis of all animal rights should be
the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we
would wish them to treat us, were any
other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens


It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers
the blessings of God, the Compassionate,
if we in turn will not practice elemantary
compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi


No God would be a slave master,
a torturer and a killer of his animals, his babies.
If he was, then he would not be God.
He would be the Devil.

Gary Yourofsky


Those who are merciful will be shown mercy
by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those
on the earth and the One in the heavens
will have mercy on you.

Mishkat al-Masabih: Book 6, Chapter 7, 8:178


My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is
the means of realising him.

Mahatma Gandhi


Man worships an invisible God
and destroys a visible Nature.
Unaware that this Nature he's destroying
is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves



Be kind to all creatures.
This is the true religion.

Buddha


Slow Living

The good life is a process, not a state of being.
It's a direction, not a destination.

Carl R. Rogers


It's a dangerous conception of mental hygiene
to assume that what man needs is equilibrium.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless
state but rather a striving and struggling
for a worthwhile goal.

Viktor Frankl


If I were asked for the most important advice
I could give, that which I considered to be
the most useful, I should simply say:
in the name of God, stop a moment,
cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy


Life is not a problem to be solved,
but a mystery to be lived.
Follow the path that is no path,
follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell


Wu Wei is the art of sailing,
rather than the art of rowing.

Alan Watts


A quiet secluded life in the country,
with the possibility of being useful
to people to whom it is easy to do good, and
who are not accustomed to have it done to them;
then work which one hopes will be of some use;
then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's
neighbour - such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy


A mind needs books like a sword needs
a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Tyrion Lannister


1. Rest & recharge.
2. Remove distractions.
3. Take care of your body.
4. Take one step towards your goal.
5. Show up as your best self.
6. Accomplish one big task.
7. Do something fun.
8. Make connections everywhere you go.
9. Have something to look forward to.
10. Make time for yourself.


Morality is not the doctrine of how we may
make ourselves happy, but of how we may
make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant


- Enjoy the experience.
- Don't rush the process.
- Focus on the meaning, not the action.
- Take time to relax.
- Make mistakes and learn.


Enjoy the little things in life, because one day
you will look back and realize
they were the big things.

Kurt Vonnegut


The secret of being miserable is to have leisure
to bother about whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw


The true worth of a man is to be
measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius


Comfort is the worst addiction.
Marcus Aurelius


This is the real secret of life - to be completely
engaged with what you are doing in the here
and now. And instead of calling it work,
realize it is play.

Alan Watts


Mostly it is loss which teaches us
about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Happiness is like a butterfly,
the more you chase it,
the more it will evade you,
but if you notice the other things around you,
it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau


Happiness always looks small while you 
hold it in your hands, but let it go,
and you learn at once how big
and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky