The Measure of Humanity

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

The true measure of any society can be found

in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Mahatma Gandhi

The animals you eat are not those who devour

others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts,

you take them as your pattern. You only

hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures

which harm no one, which follow you,

serve you, and are devoured by you

as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who feeds a hungry animal,

feeds his own soul.

Charlie Chaplin

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

How we treat the vulnerable is

how we define ourselves as a species.

Russell Brand

Injustice anywhere is a threat

to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I shall

Gather up

All the lost souls

That wander this earth

All the ones that are alone

All the ones that are broken

All the ones that never really fitted in

I shall gather them all up

And together we shall find our home.

Athey Thompson

There are two ways through life:

the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

I think there is a connection between the way

we treat animals and the way we treat people

who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Angela Davis

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts

delight in killing any living creature. By every

act that glorifies or even tolerates such

moronic delight in killing, we set back

the progress of humanity.

Rachel Carson

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

The greatness of humanity is not in being human,

but in being humane.

Mahatma Gandhi

In the end, only three things matter:

how much you loved, how gently you

lived, and how gracefully you let go

of things not meant for you.

Buddha

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

🦊 Cruelty-Free Shopping 🐇

If one person is unkind to an animal

it is considered to be cruelty,

but if a lot of people are unkind to animals

(especially in the name of profit)

the cruelty is condoned and will be defended

by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison

Behind every fur, there is a story.

It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Mary Tyler Moore

There is no kind way to rip the skin of animal's

backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares

the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths

of millions of animals each year.

Natalie Imbruglia

Jo Frederiks

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

Wearing cosmetics that were tested on

animals makes you ugly on the inside.

Ricky Gervais

Every time you spend money you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

It's medieval to me that the fashion industry

still kills millions of animals a year.

Stella McCartney

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

Animals run no risk of going to hell.

They are already there.

Victor Hugo

Kill To Dress

People speak sometimes about the "bestial"

cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust

and offensive to beasts, no animal could

ever be so cruel as man, so artfully, so

artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man has made the Earth a hell for animals.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and

watch. In a consumer-driven society our

individual choices, used collectively for

the good of animals, can change

the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

I think that killing to make 

or eat things is horrific.

Alan Cumming

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each one of us makes a difference every day

by the choices we make. When billions start

making ethical decisions, we can put

the world on the right track.

Jane Goodall

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