💣 Unpopular Opinions & Controversial Figures 🔥

Freethinkers are those who are willing to

use their minds without prejudice and

without fearing to understand things that

 clash with their own customs, privileges,

or beliefs. This state of mind is not common,

but it is essential for right thinking.

Leo Tolstoy

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way,

you may as well not say it at all

because people will not trouble themselves

about anything that does not trouble them.

George Bernard Shaw

Five minutes after your born, they will decide

your tribe, and you will spend the rest of your

life defending things you didn't choose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

The minority is generelly formed by those who

really have an opinion, while the strenght

 of the majority is illusory, formed by 

the gangs who have no opinion.

Soren Kierkegaard

It's easy to stand in the crowd

but it takes courage to stand alone.

Mahatma Gandhi

The question is not whether we will be extremists,

but what kind of extremists we will be. For hate

or for love? For the preservation of injustice

or for the extension of justice?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead

where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What the herd hates most is the one who thinks

differently; it is not so much the opinion itself,

but the audacity of wanting to think

for themselves, something that they

do not know how to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't want to talk, to communicate, with

someone who agrees with me; I want to

communicate with you because

you see it differently.

Stephen Covey

Two percent of the people think.

Three percent of the people think they think.

And ninty-five percent of the people

would rather die than think.

George Bernard Shaw

True morality consists not in following

the beaten track, but in finding the true path

for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Class & Elegance

Respect for ourselves guides our morals,

respect for others guides our manners.

Laurence Sterne

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;

for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;

and for poise, walk with the knowledge

that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

What you do not want done to yourself,

do not do to others.

Confucius

Do not do unto others what you expect they

should do unto you. Their tastes

may not be the same.

George Bernard Shaw

Behave toward everyone as if

receiving a great guest.

Confucius

- Say "please", "thank you" and "excuse me".

- Make eye contact, smile and be present.

- Have a soft handshake. Introduce anyone who is with you. Rememb people's name. It's better to ask for the name again before your first conversation end than next time you meet each other.

 

- Remember what people tell you and ask about it next time you see each other.

- Be punctual. Be on time. If you can't make it, let them know ahead of time directly. Don't tell someone else to tell. Don't wait until the last minute. If you're going to be ten minutes late, contact them and say you're sorry. If you can't make it to an event, let people know ahead of time.

- If you're the host, let people know that you're grateful that they attended, that you had a great time and that you look forward to see them in the future. If you received a gift, show your appreciation and gratitude for the gift. Immediately. If someone mails you something, you can mail back and that shouldn't take a week.

-  Don't talk (loudly) on your cellphone when you're around other people. If you have to do it, apologize and let them know why.

- Avoid topics that are gross or tragic. Keep conversations light and appropriate.

- Be mindful of how much food you put into your mouth and to chew with your mouth closed. Don't talk with food in your mouth. Practice the same manners at home as when you're in public.

- Don't make sounds with your mouth when you talk on the phone.

- Look up videos on Youtube and read books on manners. Have mentors. Watch people who present themselves well and mimic them.

- Don't complain. Ask politely for what you want.

- State your opinion but never argue with anyone.

- If you didn't hear what someone said, say "excuse me, what did you say, I'm sorry I missed that".

- Treat people with kindness and respect, no matter who they are.

A Feminine Impression - How to be an Elegant Woman Part 1

A Feminine Impression - How to be an Elegant Woman Part 2

A Feminine Impression - How to be an Elegant Woman Part 3

A Feminine Impression - How to be an Elegant Woman Part 4

1. Don't act desperate.

2. Show others respect and demand respect in return.

3. No drama.

4. Don't be jealous - be inspired by others success.

5. Enjoy the finer things in life.

6. Communicate clearly. Learn to listen and practice compassion.

7. Celebrate your personality.

8. Be open-minded and non-judgemental.

9. Give back to society (discreetly).

10. Work on yourself.

Good manners are the practical

application of kindness.

Kay West

1. Not pretending.

2. Life experience.

3. Being well-travelled.

4. Being well-read.

5. Having hobbies.

6. Attending cultural events.

7. Analytical thinking.

8. Not overusing the term "I don't know".

9. Attending conferences and seminars.

10. Having correct table manners.

1. Don't need to prove a point. Keep your emotions under control.

2. Are not obsessed with free things.

3. Don't borrow money & act carelessly.

4. Can handle their liquor.

5. Communicate eloquently online.

6. Handle copycats gracefully.

7. Don't obsess over men.

8. Pay attention to their smell.

9. Queue elegantly.

1. You avoid drama.

2. You have self respect.

3. You are selective.

4. You have standards.

5. You respect others.

6. You are confident.

7. You have composure & you are discreet.

8. You embrace personal accountability.

9. You understand there is a time & place for everything.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

1. Name dropping.

2. Asking too many questions without talking anything about yourself as well.

3. Sharing others contact details without their permission.

4. Being stiff and boring.

5. Trying to portray yourself as perfect.

6. Lacking interest in others.

1. Talking too much. Trying to impress. Bragging.

2. Never returning any favors.

3. Having bad breath.

4. Looking down on others.

5. Being a know-it-all.

1. You don't air your dirty laundry in public.

2. You're not obsessed with looking or appearing rich.

3. No name dropping, status bragging & any form of showing off.

4. You're not a fake friend.

5. You respect other people's boundaries.

6. You support people in embarassing situations.

7. You don't treat service people like servants.

8. You're not stingy when you have the funds.

9. You have compassion.

10. You're kind to animals.

1. The walk of shame.

2. Eating on the street or drink on the go.

3. Drinking cow milk.

4. Oversharing.

5. Whistling.

6. Being intrusive.

7. Putting your feet on the table.

8. Getting in bed with a stranger.

9. Not welcoming guests at arrival.

10. Being neglectful.

You can easily judge the character of a man

by how he treats those who can do

nothing for him.

Johann Goethe

The Anna Bey Podcast - Elegance Mistakes

- Intolerance.

- Yoga pants.

- Blue jeans.

- Sweatpants.

- Grunge.

- Being rude to service staff.

- Blowing your nose at the table.

- Filler words.

- Too much information in public.

- Being loud.

- Making fun of others religion or spiritual beliefs.

- Bragging.

- Going to the bathroom in the middle of a meal.

- Using your phone at the table.

- Having hair or lint on your clothes.

- Shewing with your mouth open.

The great secret is not having bad manners

or good manners or any other particular sort

of manners, but having the same manners for

all human souls. In short, behaving as if

you were in heaven, where there are no

third-class carriages, and one soul

is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

From Trauma To Triumph

Your wounds lead you to your purpose.

Mastin Kipp

It can ruin you life only if it ruins your character.

Marcus Aurelius

The dark does not destroy the light: it defines it.

Brené Brown

It's not the events of our lives that shape us,

but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins

Sometimes the only way we can survive our own

memories is to shape them into a story

that makes sense out of events

that seem inexplicable.

Yeonmi Park

We can't learn without pain.

Aristotle

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering

can the soul be strenghtened, ambition

inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

Given the choice between the experience of pain

and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Jay Samit

A good teacher will lead the horse to water,

an excellent teacher will make

the horse thirsty first.

Mario Cortes

The only way to save yourself

is to endeavor to save others.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will

be a success story, and I promise you that all

the forces of the universe will unite to come

to your aid; you might not feel today or

for a while, but the longer you wait

the bigger the prize.

George Bernard Shaw

We should try to be parents of our future

rather than the offspring of our past.

Miguel de Unamuno

Being a candle is not easy, in order

to give light one must first burn.

Rumi

Recognize that your birth was a response to

the world's requirements, not solely

your own wishes.

Epictetus

There are ships sailing to many ports,

but not a single one goes where

life is not painful.

Fernando Pessoa

The wound is the place

where the light enters you.

Rumi

I refuse to eat animals because

I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings

and by the death of other creatures.

I refuse to do so, because I suffered

so painfully myself that I can feel

the pains of others by recalling

my own sufferings.

Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz

One's life has value so long as one attributes

value to the life of others, by means of love,

friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Eventually, you will come to understand that

love heals everything and love is all there is.

Gary Zukav

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cleo Wade

Stå stilla i smärtan

rotad i det som är ljus i dig.

Låt svärdet gå genom dig.

Kanske det inte alls är ett svärd.

Kanske det är en stämgaffel.

Du blir en ton.

Du blir den musik du alltid

längtat efter att få höra.

Du visste inte att du var en sång.

Ylva Eggehorn

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

🌱 Health is Wealth 💚

The most ethical diet just so happens to be

the most environmentally sound diet and

just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger

You will never change your life until

you change something you do daily.

The secret of your success

is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

The earth affords a lavish supply of richess

of innocent foods, and offers you banquets

that involve no bloodshed or slaughter.

Pythagoras

True wealth is having your health

and knowledge of self.

Benjamin Franklin

Worthless people live to eat and drink;

people of worth eat and drink to live.

Socrates

I hope that people try veganism for their health,

the animals and the planet. Even one meal

a day can make a difference.

Tabitha Brown

We live in imaginary worlds, created by

corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

If ignorance is bliss,

why aren't more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson

People ask me how I look so young; I tell them

I look my age. It is other people who look older;

what do you expect from people who eat corpses?

George Bernard Shaw

Health so far outweighs all external goods

that a truly healthy beggar is happier

than a sick king.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It always seems to me that man

was not born to be a carnivore.

Albert Einstein

I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based,

whole food diet that can expand your life length

and make you an all-around happier person.

Ariana Grande

Our food should be our medicine and

our medicine should be our food.

Hippocrates

It is health that is real wealth

and not pieces of gold and silver.

Mahatma Gandhi

We kill billions of wild animals to protect

the animals that we eat. We are destroying

our environment to feed the animals we eat.

We spend more time, money and resources

fattening up the animals that we eat, than we do

feeding humans who are dying of hunger.

After all the expenses of raising these animals,

we eat them; and they kill us slowly.

And rather than recognize this madness, we

torture and murder millions of other animals

trying to find a cure to the diseases

caused by eating animals.

Mike Anderson

People don't break habits;

they replace them with new ones.

Dr. Phil

Humans lack humanity, not protein.

Eddie Mah

A healthy man wants a thousand things,

a sick man only wants one.

Confucius

We can protect our health, our planet,

and the animals we share it with

by leaving them off the plate.

Neal Barnard

Being vegan is the right thing for yourself

and for the planet and animals.

Lenny Kravitz

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

The reason I'm vegan?

It started off for health reasons.

The reason I'm vegan now?

Because I don't believe in slavery of any species.

John Salley

Take care of the temple that houses your soul.

A well maintained body allows

the soul to live it's purpose fully.

Mastin Kipp

The Power of Your Perfume 💮

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

You will not be punished for your anger,

you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

Happiness is nothing more than

good health and bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

George Bernard Shaw

Dreams come true in direct proportional

to how much self-care you practice.

Mastin Kipp

Give a man health and a course to steer

and he'll never stop to trouble about

whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

The body is a part of the soul made visible, 

the expression of the soul to our external senses.

William Blake

Your body is the temple to your soul.

Treat it impeccably well.

Mastin Kipp

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubenstein

It is the unseen, unforgettable,

ultimate accessory of fashion

that heralds your arrival and

prolongs your departure.

Coco Chanel

1. Unkept feet.

2. Lipliner outside of your lips.

3. Greasy hair.

4. Neglecting your makeup.

5. Showing your hair extensions.

6. Badly fitted fake eyelashes.

7. Blush that is not blended correctly.

8. Hair that doesn't have movement.

9. Unnatural hair color.

10. Cakey makeup.

1. Yellow or orange tone in blonde hair.

2. Hair band around your wrist.

3. Wrong tone in your foundation.

4. Split ends.

5. Tacky behavior.

6. Bad teeth.

7. Juvenile perfume

8. Dated style.

9. Eyebrows that are too strong.

10. Chipped nails.

The key to learning great skills

is to pay attention.

Mike Desert

Knowledge is not skill.

Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Shinichi Suzuki

1. Discover your signature scent.

2. Layering for longevity.

3. Timing is everything.

4. Less is more.

5. Embrace confidence & authenticity.

Addiction & Recovery

When a person can't find a deep sense of

meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Victor Frankl

 

Pleasures can become punishments

when taken beyond a certain point.

Marcus Aurelius

 

I learned through my body and soul that it was

necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to

strive for property and experience nausea and

the depths of despair in order to learn not to

resist them, in order to learn to love the world,

and no longer compare it with some kind of

desired imaginary vision of perfection,

but to leave it as it is, to love it and

be glad to belong to it.

Hermann Hesse

I often think of alcohol as a genie in a bottle.

It promises everything but eventually

imprisons you in the bottle itself.

Erica Jong

Complete abstinence is easier

than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine