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

Vegans in Media

Many people, especially ignorant people,

want to punish you for speaking the truth,

for being correct, for being you.

Never apologize for being correct,

or for being years ahead of your time.

If you're right and you know it,

speak your mind.

Even if you are a minority of one,

the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never, never be afraid to do what's right,

especially if the well-being of a person

or animal is at stake. Society's punishments

are small compared to the wounds we inflict

on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The further a society drifts from the truth,

the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

The truth is that people are brainwashed into

thinking that it's normal to consume animals.

They are so uncomfortable with confronting

what happens to those animals because

they are part and parcel of that cruelty.

Juliet Gellatley

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

Animal rights is a part of my everyday life.

When you live by example, you create a

certain level of awareness. People I have

never discussed veganism with are adopting

new habits because they see it.

Joaquin Phoenix

You meet saints everywhere.

They are people behaving decently

in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

The thing that's annoying about there suddenly

being a lot of vegans is the nagging suspicion

that they might be right.

David Mitchell

Kindness and beneficence should be extended

to the creatures of every species, and these

will flow from the breast of a true man,

as streams that issue from the living fountain.

Plutarch

You should not honor men more than truth.

Plato

We are not living in a private world of our own.

Everything we say and do and think

has its effect on everything around us.

John Galsworthy

You either approve of violence or you don't,

and nothing on Earth is more violent

or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are not living in a private world of our own.

Everything we say and do and think

has its effect on everything around us.

John Galsworthy

I have seen firsthand how injustice

gets overlooked when the victims are

powerless or vulnerable, when they have

no one to speak up for them and no means of

representing themselves to a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

The treatment of animals by the food industry

is so excessively heartless, and such an affront

to natural justice, that we who by our silence

tacitly consent to these outrages deserve to

be shocked out of our sleep. In the long run,

Mr. Yourofsky may well be doing us

a moral service by confronting us, by

the spectacle of the crimes we participate in.

John Maxwell Coetzee

If it's not good enough for your eyes,

why is it good enough for your stomach?

Gary Yourofsky

The truth will set you free.

But first, it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem