Friendship

The only way to have a friend

is to be a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1: Give up the ideal.

#2: Stop dividing.

#3: Let your secrets out.

#4: Radical acceptance.

1. Be fake-friendly.

2. Make people feel bad about themselves.

3. Be possessive.

4. Buy your friends.

5. Move too fast.

6. Do too much.

7. Perform your friendship.

8. Don't be yourself.

Be civil to all;

serviceable to many;

familiar with few;

friend to one;

enemy with noone.

Benjamin Franklin

Associate yourself with people of good quality,

for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington

1. Jealousy.

2. Passive-aggressive behavior.

3. Malicious gossip.

4. Negative Nancy.

5. Drama queen.

6. Troublemaking.

7. Attention seeking.

8. Flirting.

9. Comparing & competing.

10. Exploitation.

If having a soul means being able to feel love

and loyalty and gratitude, then a lot of

animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

When people show you who they are,

believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou

The key is to keep company only with people who

uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

Attract what you want

by being what you want.

Buddha

A Feminine Impression - How to find other feminine women

- Visualize the kind of women you want to have in your life. Focus on how you're going to feel around them.

- Be alluring, kind and approachable.

- Listen to your intuition.

When you help someone up a hill,

you find yourself closer to the top.

Brownie Wise

You will never be as happy in any other way

as you will be when you know that

you are making others happy.

Napoleon Hill

Happy is the man who can make others better,

not merely when he is in their company,

but even when he is in their thoughts.

Seneca

How to Go Vegan

It is our hearts, not just our heads,

that demand of us that we overcome,

for them, the habits and forces

behind their systematic oppression.

That requires both our passion and

our discipline. The fate of animals

is in our hands. God grant

we are equal to the task.

Tom Regan

Success is not achieved by the impractical who

merely contemplate, but by the individuals

who face reality head-on and take

purposeful action.

Plato

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths,

we think all is lost, but it's only here

that the new and the good begins.

Leo Tolstoy

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. Education.

2. Identify Small Goals.

3. Make Room for Failure.

4. Create Small Habits.

5. Replace, NOT restrict.

6. Build Community.

The secret of change is to focus all of your

energy, not on fighting the old,

but on building the new.

Socrates

Do the best you can until you know better.

Then when you know better, do better.

Maya Angelou

Once I learned what was happening to animals,

I couldn't not do something. Every single day

I make choices that take them into consideration.

Elaine Hendrix

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard

of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to

be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

He who has a why to live for

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Discipline is choosing between what

you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

There's so much pain in the world that we

are powerless over, but being party

to animal suffering is not one of them.

Joaquin Phoenix

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

It promises everything but eventually

imprisons you in the bottle itself.

Erica Jong

Sugar is the sociopath of foods.

It acts sweet but it's really poison.

Karen Salmansohn

1. Know your why. Make the connection.

2. Transition at your own pace.

3. Whole food plant-based diet.

4. Learn easy GO TO vegan meals.

5. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail (Benjamin Franklin).

6. Don't strive for perfection - it's a learning process.

7. Supplement B12 (& vitamin D in the winter).

8. Keep learning, keep growing.

9. Practice empathy and understanding.

10. Socialize & participate in the vegan community, on/off line.

11. Eat balanced meals.

12. Have fun. Explore!

🐛 The Mind is the Motor 🦋

What you want is deliberately placed

out of reach so that you can become

the person it takes to obtain it.

 

Mastin Kipp

You cannot wish for both strong character

and an easy life. The price of each is the other.

Alex Hormozi

The trials you face will introduce you

to your strengths.

Epictetus

A Feminine Impression - Transform Your Mind

- Visualize the woman that you want to be.

How does she look? How does she smell? How does she act? How does she treat people? What does she have? What is her position in life? What is her purpose? Write it down. Make it as detailed as possible.

- Your mind.

Unravel your subconscious mind and core thoughts. It takes work to access new "emojis" in your mind but the more you use an "emoji", the easier it gets.

- Your thoughts.

Have stillness. Evalute your thoughts and create a new paradigm. Change the channel.

- The spirit.

Daily spiritual cleansing. Forgive yourself.

- The butterfly effect. Transformation.

We delight in the beauty of a butterfly,

but rarely admit the changes it has

gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelo

What is to give light must endure burning.

Viktor Frankl

Your mind is like a garden -

unless you cultivate flowers,

weeds will flourish.

Brian Tracy

Any man could, if he were so inclined,

be the sculptor of his own brain.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

1. Set priorities.

2. Be decisive.

3. Avoid multitasking.

4. Keep a journal.

5. Let go of expectations.

The mind and the body imprint each other.

What we think, we become.

What we become, we think.

Edgar Cayce

1. Define what's holding you back in life. Let go of your blockages. It all starts with awareness. Work with affirmations.

2. Set goals. What do you really want? Admit, accept and decide.

3. Find your fuel. Ask yourself every day: how badly do you want to achieve your goal?

4. Strategize without excuses. How are you going to get yourself from where you are now, to where you want to be? Start and figure it out as you move forward.

Although, I had a hard time seeing how

I could make my dreams come true,

I focused more on what I wanted to achieve

in my life... I took actions day by day,

often outside my comfort zone, to better

myself and bring me closer to those goals.

Tina Turner

If you want it bad enough,

you'll put away all of the excuses,

and you'll do whatever it takes.

If you want it, you'll learn,

you'll create, and you'll be patient

as you put the effort in.

If you want it, you will find

a way to make it happen.

Sylvester McNutt III

1. Accept that achieving your goals is going to be tough.

2. Create your own fuel.

- Connect with your "why". Keep your eyes on the prize.

- Train your self-discipline. Force yourself to do things even when you don't feel like doing it.

- Determination. Keep on going.

3. If it's not working - restrategize.

Discipline is choosing between what

you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Zeno of Citium

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Socrates

If we were to measure what is good by how much

pleasure it brings, nothing would be better than

self-control - if we were to measure what is to be

avoided by its pain, nothing would be more

painful than lack of self-control.

Musonius Rufus

Without doubt the most common weakness

of all human beings is the habit of leaving

their minds open to the negative influence

of other people.

Napoleon Hill

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

Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst.

Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst.

Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd
- men det är vägen, som är mödan värd.

Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast,

där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast.

På ställen, där man sover blott en gång,

blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång.

Bryt upp, bryt upp!

Den nya dagen gryr.

Oändligt är vårt stora äventyr.

Karin Boye

Walk in Boldness and Courage

Give me the courage to follow my intuition with

trust even when I can't see the whole path.

Ignite my passion and show me the way

to serve others with my calling.

Mastin Kipp

To begin is the most important part of any quest

and by far the most courageous.

Plato

The way to change your mental and physical

state, is to take the action first, not wait

for your emotional state to change first.

Rich Roll

Iron rusts from disuse: water loses its purity

from stagnation... even so does inaction

sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

A ship is always safe at the shore,

but that is not what it is built for.

Albert Einstein

A man who fears suffering is already

suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

1. Give your obstacles a score.

2. Keep asking yourself why until you get to the bottom of it.

3. Start small.

4. Set yourself up for success. Attach your new habit to an already existing habit.

Take the first step in faith.

You don't have to see the whole staircase,

just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't have to be great to start,

but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now.

The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs

and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

But he, who dares not grasp the thorn

Should never crave the rose.

Anne Brontë

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Courage is the commitment to begin

without any guarantee of success.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning,

not possession but the act of getting there,

which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The sated day is never first.

The best day is a day of thirst.

Yes - there is goal and meaning in our path -

but it's the way that is the labour's worth.

Karin Boye

As you start to walk on the way,

the way appears.

Rumi

Do what you can, with what you have,

where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Doing what needs to be done may not

make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage is the most important of all the virtues

because without courage, you can't practice

any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Life shrinks or expands

in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

The Art of Conversation

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes

and but one tongue to the end that we should

hear and see more than we speak.

Socrates

Every word has consequences.

Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Change happens by listening and then

starting a dialogue with the people who are

doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall

The more you discipline yourself,

the less you will be disciplined by others.

Napoleon Hill

I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow.

Easy doesn't make you think.

Madonna

If animals could speak, mankind would weep.

Anthony Douglas

Love your enemies, for they tell you you faults.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the most sincere forms of respect is

actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

People are taught how to speak,

but their major concern

should be how to keep silent.

Leo Tolstoy

1. Your plans. Move in silence.

2. Your finances.

3. Your love life.

4. Someone else's confidential information (malicious gossip).

5. Your drama.

6. Your controversial views (religion, politics, social taboos).

7. Your good deeds.

Three can keep a secret,

if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

It is better to be king of your silence

than a slave of your words.

William Shakespeare

A fool is known by his speech;

and a wise man by silence.

Pythagoras

Wise men speak because they have something

to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

Strong minds discuss ideas,

average minds discuss events,

weak minds discuss people.

Socrates

If you propose to speak always ask yourself,

is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Buddha

He who speaks, sows. He who listens, collect.

Pythagoras

Think before you speak, read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are

cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Opinion is really the lowest form of human

knowledge. It requires no accountability, no

understanding. The highest form of knowledge

is empathy, for it requires us to suspend

our egos and live in another's world.

Bill Bullard

You can tell more about a person by what

he says about others than you can by

what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn

1. Jokes about something that is true and sensitive.

2. Jokes with your opinions that are not positive.

3. Sarcasm that goes too far (if the person does not understand that you're being sarcastic). 

4. Jokes about stereotypes (racial/stereotypes/sexist/groups of people).

5. Vulgar jokes (sexist/sex/toilet humor/swearing).

6. Self-deprecating humor.

7. A badly told joke (storytelling - how the build-up process works. Work with pauses).

Nothing shows a man's character

more than what he laughs at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you think your belief is based upon reason,

you will support it by argument rather than

by persecution, and will abandon it if

the argument goes against you.

But if your belief is based upon faith,

you will realize that argument is useless,

and will therefore resort to force.

Bertrand Russell

Listen with the intent to understand,

not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Samuel Becket

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless

I can state the arguments against my position

better than the people who are in opposition.

I am qualified to speak only when

I've reached that state.

Charlie Munger

People will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but

people will never forget how you made dem feel.

Maya Angelou

In order for the truth to be heard, it must

be spoken with love. No matter how wise

and true a spoken word will not be conveyed

to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

How CD Controls Your Life

The indifference, callousness and contempt

that so many people exhibit toward animals

is evil first because it results in great suffering

in animals, and second because it results in

an incalculably great impoverishment

of the human spirit.

Albert Einstein

Jo Frederiks

No man is capable of causing great evil

without thinking he's doing the right thing.

Socrates

Evil comes from a failure to think.

It defies thought for as soon as thought

tries to engage itself with evil and examine

the premises and principles from which it

originates, it is frustrated because

it finds nothing there.

That is the banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

People seldom do what they believe in.

They do what is convenient.

Bob Dylan

The truth will set you free.

But first, it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

It's troubling when people get upset with vegans

for pointing out the suffering, rather than

getting upset with themselves for causing it.

Jo Tyler

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

When people meet vegans, they become aware

in that moment that they eat animals.

They become uncomfortable and place

the feeling on the vegan. Their own sense

of mercy and compassion arises and

makes them uneasy. Mercy asks of you

to abstain from this cruelty.

Gary Smith

Those who lack the courage will always

find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

Psychologically speaking, one may say that

the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does

he want to appear virtuous before others,

he wants to convince himself... Only

the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

I cannot conceive of a greater loss

than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

It is not what we eat but what we digest

that makes us strong;

not what we gain but what we save

that makes us rich;

not what we read but what we remember

that makes us learned; and

not what we profess but what we practice

that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon

Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions

based on values rather than personal gain.

Chris Karcher

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest

thing in the world is to act in accordance

with your thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar

is almost as valuable to the child

as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller

Happiness is when what you think,

what you say and what you do

are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

If a man aspires towards a righteous life,

his first act of abstinence is

from injury to animals.

Albert Einstein

The reward for doing right is mostly

an internal phenomen; self-respect,

dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Laura Schlessinger