🥩Meat is Murder 🐑🐖🐄🐓

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

In forest, field and den,

The cry goes up to witness,

The soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin

Jo Frederiks

The butcher with his bloody apron incites

bloodshed, murder... From cutting the throat

of a young calf to cutting the throats of

our brothers and sisters is but a step.

While we ourselves are living

graves of murdered animals...

Isadora Duncan

You either approve of violence or you don't,

and nothing on Earth is more violent

or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey

Feeling comfortable?

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty

for what it is - whether its victim is human

or animal - we cannot expect things

to be much better in this world.

Rachel Carson

Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love

God... there is something so satanic in

tormenting those who have never harmed us,

and who cannot defend themselves,

who are utterly in our power.

John Henry Newman

Jo Frederiks

However scrupulously the slaughterhouse is

concealed in the graceful distance of miles,

there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless and until you are prepared to look

at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,

if you want to look the other way or

if you want to play favourites, then

somewhere along the line you're going to

find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

Truly man is the king of beasts.

We live by the death of others.

We are burial places.

Leonardo da Vinci

Jo Frederiks

All beings tremble before violence.

All fear death, all love life.

See yourself in others.

Then whom can you hurt?

What harm can you do?

Buddha

If you don't like seeing pictures of violence

towards animals being posted,

you need to help stop the violence,

not the pictures.

Marie Sarantakis

Jo Frederiks

Ruthless man... You turn against the dead flesh,

it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire,

boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with

drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits,

men who will rid the murder if its horrors,

who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste

deceived by these disguises will not reject what

is strange to it, and will feast on corpses,

the very sight of which would sicken you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Indifference is the acid of life.

It erodes all the spirit that's in us

and makes us useless to anyone else.

Joan D. Chittister

The scariest thing about hearing the slaughter

is the silence that comes afterwards...

because you know there was a life...

and now there isn't.

Tal Gilboa

Who We Really Are

The whole universe is sum up in the human

being. Devil is not a monster waiting to

trap us. He is a voice inside. Look for your

devil in yourself, not in the others. Don't

forget that the one who knows his devil,

knows his God.

Shams Tabrizi

Jo Frederiks

10 percent of any population is cruel,

no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful,

no matter what, and the remaining

80 percent can be moved in any direction.

Susan Sontag

When all are guilty, no one is;

and the very magnitude of the crime

becomes the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

Tsunami of Indifference

Evil thrives on apathy

and cannot exist without it.

Hannah Arendt

Any of us has the capacity for atrocity - 

just as each of us has the capacity for heroism.

David Mamet

Jo Frederiks

Your beliefs become your thoughts,

your thoughts become your words,

you words become your actions,

your actions become your habits,

your habits become your values,

your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong,

gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

Jo Frederiks

Tomorrow the sun will rise to a world

without you in it. You've been given

no reason to live yet you'll fight for another

day in a world that broke your spirit,

that took your freedom and that

showed you the depth of cruelty

capable by humankind.

Emma Hurst

Only with awareness of carnism

can we reclaim our freedom of choice;

without awareness, there is no free choice.

Melanie Joy

Individuals

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

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

There are no conditions to which a person cannot

grow accustomed, especially if he sees that

everyone around him lives in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy

Execution of the Soul

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number

to be truly dangerous. More dangerous

are the common men, the functionaries

ready to believe and to act

without asking questions.

Primo Levi

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself;

whoever does injustice, does it to himself,

making himself evil.

Marcus Aurelius

The individual has always had to struggle

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and

sometimes frightened. But no price is too high

to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling

Both optimists and pessimists contributes

to society. The optimist invents the airplane,

the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got a hold of for the moment and

I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Freedom from Indoctrination

I have always felt that the way we treat animals

is a pretty good indicator of the compassion

we are capable of for the human race.

Ali MacGraw

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Laws of Power

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

Most people abuse power.

They use power to dominate others.

They use power to destroy others.

Ultimately, when you do this, you lose it.

Frederick Lenz

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by

the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us.

He is a voice inside. Look for your devil

in yourself, not in the others.

Don't forget that the one

who knows his devil, knows his God.

Shams Tabrizi

People seem good while they are oppressed,

but they only wish to become oppressors in

their turn: life is nothing but a competition

to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil

committed by nobodies, that is, by

human beings who refuse to be persons.

Hannah Arendt

Power is never the property of an individual;

it belongs to a group and remains in existence

only so long as the group keeps together.

Hannah Arendt

The individual has always had to struggle

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often,

and sometimes frightened. But no price

is too high to pay for the privilege

of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

🌻 What is Veganism? 🌱

Veganism is a philosophy and way of living

which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible

and practicable - all forms av exploitation of,

and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or

any other purpose; and by extension,

 promotes the development and use of

animal-free alternatives for the benefit

of animals, humans and the environment.

In dietary terms it denotes the practice

of dispensing with all products

derived wholly or partly from animals.

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

We know we cannot be kind to animals

until we stop exploiting them -

exploiting animals in the name of science,

exploiting animals in the name of sport,

exploiting animals in the name of fashion,

and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

César Chávez

Widely recognized as the foundational text

within the animal liberation movement,

Peter Singer's Animal Liberation opened

my eyes to the radical philosophy that all

animals are worthy of equal consideration.

Joaquin Phoenix

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

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals

respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Tom Regan

The assumption that animals are without

rights and the illusion that our treatment

of them has no moral significance is a

positively outrageous example of human

crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion

is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals have a right to live, and whilst that

sounds very simple, our culture has denied

them that right in so many ways. In the same

way as I think that humans deserve the chance

for a good life, I extend that to animals.

Paul McCartney

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

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is,

humanity to animals, seems to be one of

the latest moral acquisitions.

Charles Darwin

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned,

mutilated, killed or tortured, then you

shouldn't condone such behavior towards

anyone, be they human or not.

Moby

Veganism serves as the criterion by which

we know that the pursuit of moral progress

on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Veganism is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy

Every effort should be made to stop

the wanton, cruel slaughter of animals,

which must be destructive to our morals.

Nikola Tesla

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of

pariahs; and that fails to recognize the eternal

essence that exists in every living being,

and shines forth with inscrutable significance

from all eyes that see the sun!

Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals suffer as much as we do.

True humanity does not allow us

to impose such sufferings on them.

Until we extend our circle of compassion to

all living beings, humanity will not find peace.

Albert Schweizer

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering

and death on other sentient beings for the trivial

reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is,

without a doubt, one of the most arrogant and

morally repugnant notions in the history

of human thought.

Gary L. Francione

The greatest thing in the world is not so much

where we stand as in what direction

we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The vegan believes that if we are to be true

emancipators of animals we must renounce

absolutely our traditional and conceited

attitude that we have the right to use them

to serve our needs.

Donald Watson

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Alone we can do so little;

together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

We cut the throat of a calf and hang him up

by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal

cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board

and cram them with food because we like

the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces

to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate

domestic animals for no reason at all except

to follow an instinctively cruel fashion;

and we connive at the most abominable

tortures in the hope of discovering some

magical cure for our own diseases by them.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not take that which is not yours,

including the lives of other animals.

Anthony Douglas Williams

The time will come when humanity will extend

its mantle over everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham

Awaken to Your Destiny

You are not a drop in the ocean;

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

The universe experiences itself through you

for a brief moment called life.

Eckhart Tolle

Jo Frederiks

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

Pursuing self-esteem can be motivating,

but other sources of motivation, such as

goals that are good for the self and others,

can provide the same motivation

without the costs.

Jennifer Crocker & Lora Park

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

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and

go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

The thing about real life is that important events

don't announce themselves... Usually something

that is going to change your whole life is

a memory before you can stop and

be impressed about it.

Edith Schaeffer

The really important kind of freedom involves

attention, and awareness, and discipline, and

effort, and being able truly to care about other

people and to sacrifice for them, over and over,

in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction

ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Naeem Callaway

The greatest gift you have to give

is that of your own self-transformation.

Lao Tzu

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got a hold of for the moment and

I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

Service to others is the rent you pay

for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

Life's most important and urgent question is:

what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to live a happy life,

tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Albert Einstein

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue, and it only does so as the side

effect of one's personal dedication to a cause

greater than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

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

Transform Yourself 🦋

Before, my role model was the vision

of the woman I wanted to become.

Then I became that woman.

Diane von Fürstenberg

Act the way you'd like to be and soon

you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

To become the person you aspire to be,

develop the habits of that person.

Bille Cristiane Temanel

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle

of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute

to the happiness of others.

Mary Shelley

1. Prepare: Internal dialogue & mindset.

2. Plan: Set goals.

3. Purge: Internal & external.

4. Provide.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles;

change your leaves, keep intact to your roots.

Victor Hugo

Great things are not done by impulse, but

by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope

for tomorrow. The important thing is not

to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

We change the world not by what we say or do

but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

- Soften your appearance. Pay attention to all aspects. Pamper yourself. Always look your best. Wear soft and bright colours that complement your skintone.

- Soften your movements. Have pliability with your body. Dance. Listen to soft music. Stretch. Slow down your movements. Smile.

- Soften your mind. Be aware of all the things that impact you. Feed your mind with things that elevate you. Pull away from anyone and anything that brings you down. God places people in your life to teach you something but they are rarely meant to be there for your entire life. It's also about the books you read, the people you watch on Youtube etc. Surround yourself with women who have traits that you want to have. Your surroundings rub off on you. Step away from everyhing that hardens you.

- Soften your spirit. Be kind, forgive and love. Break free from addiction.

- Soften your tone of voice. Have a calm, melodic, soothing and sweet tone. Breath and relax. Think before you speak. Speak slower and lower your voice. Pay attention to what voice your use when you speak to different people and why.

A Feminine Impression - How to Become a Softer Feminine Woman

- Rebrand yourself. Don't let others hold you down.

- Practice good manners. Say "please", "thank you", "excuse me" and "you're welcome". Make eye contact. Mind your tone. Be sincere, kind and humble. Treat everyone with the same respect. Show reverence for each and every one of God's creatures.

- Soften your environment. Add flowers, scents and music.

- Spend time with yourself. Slow down.

- Spirituality & healing. Humble yourself. Practice love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Repent.

A Feminine Impression - Butterfly Mail

- Get up at 4 AM or 5 AM.

 - Say affirmations. Use empowering language.

- Write down what you're grateful for and why. Journal.

- Be present. Slow down.

- Keep your environment clean.

- Pamper yourself.

- Have a playlist of music, videos, interviews, speeches etc. that's empowering for you.

- Look soft. Soft colors & feminine clothes. Perfume, nailpolish. Do your hair. Smile.

- Be vulnerable and honest. Take responsibility and apologize.

- Think for yourself.

- Be open-minded and non-judgemental.

- Look for the good in everything & everyone.

- Rejoice in the success of others.

- Remain unbothered. Don't absorb other people's negative energy.

- Focus on your personal goals.

1. Live authentically. Set boundaries. Receieve with joy.

2. Enhance your experiences. Enjoy the process.

3. Stay out of strife.

4. Have peace.

You become what you give your attention to.

Epictetus

A seed grows with no sound, but a tree falls

with a huge noise. Destruction has noise,

but creation is quiet.

Confucius

We first make our habits,

and then our habits make us.

John Dryden

Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister.

Varför skulle annars våren tveka?

Varför skulle all vår heta längtan

bindas i det frusna bitterbleka?

Höljet var ju knoppen hela vintern.

Vad är det för nytt, som tär och spränger?

Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister,

ont för det som växer och det som stänger.

Ja nog är det svårt när droppar faller.

Skälvande av ängslan tungt de hänger,

klamrar sig vid kvisten, sväller, glider -

tyngden drar dem neråt, hur de klänger.

Svårt att vara oviss, rädd och delad,

svårt att känna djupet dra och kalla,

ändå sitta kvar och bara darra -

svårt att vilja stanna och vilja falla.

Då, när det är värt och inget hjälper,

briser som i jubel trädets knoppar.

Då, när ingen rädsla längre håller,

faller i ett glitter kvistens droppar,

glömmer att de ängslades för färden -

känner en sekund sin största trygghet,

vilar i den tillit som skapar världen.

Karin Boye