Animal Holocaust

Auschwitz begins wherever someone

 looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:

they're only animals.

Theodor Adorno

Do you know why so many survivors of

the Holocaust are vegan? Because

they know what it's like to be

treated like an animal.

Chuck Palahniuk

Human beings see oppression vividly

when they are the victims. Otherwise

they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every.Day.

Holocaust victims were treated like animals,

and so logically we can conclude that

animals are treated like Holocaust victims.

Matt Prescott

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy

and disbelieves in those of his own side,

without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

George Orwell

Jo Frederiks

Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an

enterprise of cruelty which rivals anything that

the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it,

in that ours is an enterprise without end,

self-regenerating, bringing animals ceaselessly

into the world for the purpose of killing them.

John Maxwell Coetzee

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

When Will We Ever Learn

Only when we have become non violent

towards all life will we have learned

to live well with others.

César Chávez

'Never again' is not about what others shouldn't

do to us. It's 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

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

🦀What About Crustaceans? 🦞🦐

The question is not, Can they reason?

nor Can they talk? but rather,

Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

Answer me, you who believe that animals are 

only machines. Has nature arranged for this

animal to have all the machinery of feelings

only in order for it not to have any at all?

Voltaire

No one will protect what they don't care about,

and no one will care about what

they have never experienced.

David Attenborough

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 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

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Man can no longer live for himself alone.

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

Why are you so afraid of change? Nothing

in this world can be without change. Only

one rule is constant: do not do anything

inhumane to others.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Veganuary

The most ethical diet just so happens to be

the most environmentally sound diet and

just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger

Becoming vegan was the biggest change I ever

made in my life, and one of the greatest

accomplishments as well.

Woody Harrelson

It is the best decision I have ever made and I've

enjoyed it so much more than I could ever have

expected. It feels good to do the right thing.

Lucy Watson

Every person I have met who has gone vegan

says it is the best decision they have ever made.

Lewis Hamilton

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

My own view is that being vegan is not an end

in itself, but a means towards reducing both

human and animal suffering and leaving a

habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

We love dogs and eat cows not because 

dogs and cows are fundamentally different -

but because our perception of them is different.

Melanie Joy

Being vegan is the right thing for yourself

and for the planet and animals.

Lenny Kravitz

What I want people to know is that it's a joy

to be vegan. It feels good intellectually,

morally, spiritually. It's just leading

with kindness basically. That's what we

all need to do. Lead with kindness

and that will change the world.

Jo-Ann McArthur

The good you want for others is also

the good that is meant for you.

Mastin Kipp

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

I believe that every meat-free meal is a win

for animals and the planet. We're all

trying to make the world a bit better,

so why not sign up, take part, give it a go,

and see how you feel? It could be

the best thing you ever did.

Paul McCartney

It is better to do something than to do

nothing while waiting to do everything.

Winston Churchill

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

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind

of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction

ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Tip toe if you must, but take the step.

Naeem Callaway

If you look at the climate crisis or the violence

of our food system and feel helpless, thinking

'I wish there was something that I could do' -

you can. Right now. Sign up to try

vegan this January.

Joaquin Phoenix

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

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

a 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

Jo Frederiks

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

Plant-based living isn't a trend.

It's a moral evolution.

Jane Goodall

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

Jo Frederiks

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

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

Minimalism

Simplify your life, for in doing so, you make

room for clarity and purpose. By removing

anything unnecessary, you create space for

what truly matters.

Epictetus

Decide what kind of life you actually want.

And then say no to everything that isn't that.

Melanie Mackie

1. Work (essentialism)

2. Personal finances (awareness, goals)

3. Time (daily routines)

4. Possessions (declutter)

5. Meals (plan)

6. Screen time (limit)

7. Relationships (evaluate, decrease)

8. Mental habits (journal, exercise)

Essentialism is not about how to get more things

done. It's about how to get the right things done.

It is about making the wisest possible investment

of your time and energy in order to operate

at our highest point of contribution

by doing only what is essential.

Greg McKeown

1. Set upp barriers.

2. 30 day detox.

3. Re-evaluate your priorities.

Digital minimalism is a philosophy

of technology use in which you focus

your online time on a small number of

carefully selected and optimized activites that

strongly support things you value and then

happily miss out on everything else.

Cal Newport

1. Coffee filters

2. Bottled water

3. Kitchen appliances

4. Plates, mugs and silverware

5. Plastic bags

6. Books

7. Stationary goods

8. Cleaning supplies

9. Single use items

10. Home decor

11. Seasonal decorations

12. Television

13. Technology

14. Pet toys

15. Fashion accessories

16. Jewelry

17. Fast fashion

18. Cocktails/beverages

19. Souvenirs

20. Things I can't afford

The first step in crafting the life you want

is to get rid of everything you don't.

Joshua Becker

1. High maintenance plants

2. Gifts

3. Kindle

4. Cheese board

5. Supplements

6. Cheap kitchen tools

7. Perfume

8. Glass containers/canisters

9. "What if"-/"Maybe"-clothes

10. High heels

1. A bigger home.

2. First class seats.

3. Salon visits.

4. High-end designer clothes.

5. Latest gadgets.

6. Fine dining.

7. Resorts.

8. Car upgrades.

9. Delivery services.

10. Full-priced items.

- Opportunity cost (when you choose something, you give up something else).

- Research. Buy vegan & cruelty-free products. Support ethical companies.

- Wish list.

- Test of time.

- Use what you have.

Every time you spend money you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

How to prepare

- Study your habits.

- Know your purpose.

- Remove temptations.

- How will you measure progress?

Rules

- Check ethical brands, local businesses, thrift first!

- Investments are OK.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and

watch. In a consumer-driven society our

individual choices, used collectively for

the good of animals, can change

the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff

Each one of us makes a difference every day

by the choices we make. When billions start

making ethical decisions, we can put

the world on the right track.

Jane Goodall

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained

not by its growth, but by washing away

from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

1. Other people's validation.

2. Things that don't align with who I am.

3. Scarcity mindset.

4. Attachment to the past.

5. Fillers of life.

You don't improve your life by doing more.

You improve it by doing less

of what doesn't matter.

Cory Allen

- Get clear about what YOU want and why?

- Narrow your focus.

- Create a strong support system.

- Eliminate and simplify based on your values.

- Let go of control and expectations.

- Reset your shopping habit.

- Simplify. Perfect the basics.

- Practice gratitude.

1. You have a clutter-free home.

2. You are good at prioritizing.

3. You have boundaries.

4. You are not influenced by marketing.

5. You don't compare your life to others.

6. You spend on meaningful purchases.

7. You don't rely on material things for happiness.

8. You feel like you're in control of your life.

Most of what we say and do is not essential.

If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time,

and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every

moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Marcus Aurelius

- Start with your physical space.

- What is your version of a 'simple life'?

- How will you redirect your resources?

- What are the habits and mindset to sustain this lifestyle?

- What can you control vs. let go?

Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out

until you're left only with what you love,

with what's necessary, with what

makes you happy.

Leo Bababuta