Happy Mother's Day

A mother's love does not derive from the intellect

but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides

We're taught as children that milk

comes from cows when in reality,

milk comes from mothers.

Preacher Lawson

I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.

Fred Rogers

🪳 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

Someone Not Something

The animals of the world exist for their own

reasons. They were not made for humans

any more than black people were made

for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

The beauty you see in me

is a reflection of you.

Rumi

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

Animals are not ours to eat, wear,

experiment on, use for entertainment

or for any exploitative purpose.

Sharon Gannon

Once we accept this view of animals - as our

resources - the rest is as predictable

as it is regrettable.

Tom Reagan

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.

Fred Rogers

I don't see why someone should lose their life

just so you can have a snack.

Russell Brand

The soul given to each of us is moved by

the same living spirit that moves the Universe.

Albert Einstein

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

Jo Frederiks

We've objectified certain animals so much

that we refer to them as 'livestock'.

'Stock' that just so happens to be alive.

An inconvenience that they were

even alive to begin with.

Ed Winters

The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.

Leif Erikson

Jo Frederiks

Every bit of meat, chicken or fish you eat,

every bit of leather or fur you wear,

has come from an animal that has

been tortured, pulled away from their

family and brutally killed.

Lewis Hamilton

Only those who are capable of loving strongly

can also suffer great sorrow, but this same

necessity of loving serves to counteract

their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

Jo Frederiks

One should not kill a living being,

nor cause anyone to be killed,

nor should one incite another to kill.

Do not injure any being,

either strong or weak, in the world.

Buddha

The world is not a factory and

animals are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Work, Work, Work...

My hunger is not for success,

it is for excellence.

Mike Krzyzewski

Don't climb mountains so that people

can see you. Climb mountains so

that you can see the world.

David McCullough Jr.

Don't pray for lighter burdens,

but for stronger backs.

Buddha

All anyone really requires to start a successful

career is a sound mind, a healthy body,

and a genuine desire to be as much service

as possible to as many as possible.

Napoleon Hill

No matter how isolated you are and how

lonely you feel, if you do your work truly

and conscientiously, unknown friends

will come and seek you.

Carl Jung

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work. And

the only way to do great work

is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

The quality of your work reflects the quality

of your character. Focus on excellence in

all you do, and success will follow.

Epictetus

The worst thing that we can do as women

is not stand up for each other, and this is

something we can practice every day,

no matter where we are and what we do

- women sticking up for other women,

choosing to protect and celebrate each other

instead of competing or critizing each other.

Amal Clooney

Recognize that your birth was a response to

the world's requirements, not solely

your own wishes.

Epictetus

Asian Stereotypes

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons.

That's the way that we attack people. At an

artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Junot Diaz

"Neoteny" is "remaining young" and... human

evolution has been dominated by it. Behavioral

traits such as curiosity about the world,

flexibility of response, and playfulness is common

to all young mammals... Humanity has

advanced, not because it has been sober,

responsible, and cautious, but because it has

been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Tom Robbins

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,

nor the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

The most potent weapon in the hands

of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steven Bantu Biko

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are

somehow different than our brothers and sisters,

allows for all the great evils.

Anna Quindlen

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are

untrue, but that they are incomplete.

They make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Eroticism is first and foremost

a thirst for otherness.

Octavio Paz