🌱 The Vegan Community 🌻

People working together in a strong community

with a shared goal and a common purpose

can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack

If you think we can't change the world,

it just means you're not one of those who will.

Jacque Fresco

The time will come when men such as I

will look upon the murder of animals

as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

Think about what your skills are, and what you

enjoy doing, or what you're good at and

employ those specific skills to make

the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,

in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The key is to keep company only with people who

uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

A man can live and be healthy without killing

animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat,

he participates in taking life merely

for the sake of his appetite.

And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

You meet saints everywhere.

They are people behaving decently

in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

The thing that's annoying about there suddenly

being a lot of vegans is the nagging suspicion

that they might be right.

David Mitchell

You can judge a man's true character by

the way he treats his fellow animals.

Paul McCartney

I'm so proud to be a vegan.

It's the best decision I have ever made.

For my health and for the world and

for the sake of decency and compassion.

Paul Wesley

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do

what I believe is right. That's powerful.

Alicia Silverstone

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jo Frederiks

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

My awareness of belonging to the invisible

community of those who strive for truth,

beauty and justice has prevented me

from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are only as strong as we are united,

as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling

The day the power of love overrules the love

of power, the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

Write Your Own Story 🪷

The most important relationship we can all have

is the one you have with yourself, the most

important journey you can take is one of

self-discovery. To know yourself, you must

spend time with yourself, you must not

be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself

is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

It's not the events of our lives that shape us,

but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins

Humans think in stories, and we try to

make sense of the world by telling stories.

Yuval Noah Harari

The stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

Habits are the way you embody identity.

True behavior change is really identity change.

James Clear

The mind and the body imprint each other.

What we think, we become.

What we become, we think.

Edgar Cayce

A season of loneliness and isolation

is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

Mandy Hale

It is a gift to not fit in. It sets you on a journey

of finding a sanctuary within yourself.

Brianna Wiest

Modern man lives under the illusion that he

knows what he wants, while he actually wants

what he is supposed to want. In order to accept

this it is necessary to realize that to know

 what one really wants is not comparatively

easy, as most people think, but one of the most

 difficult problems any being has to solve.

It is a task we frantically try to avoid

by accepting ready-made goals as though

they were our own.

Erich Fromm

We pursue external goals

to hit an internal emotional target.

Mastin Kipp

People are always angry at anyone who

chooses individual standards for his life;

because of the extraordinary treatment which

that man grants to himself, they feel degraded,

like ordinary beings.

Nietzsche

The person who follows the crowd will usually go

no further than the crowd. The person who

walks alone is likely to find himself in places

no one has ever seen before.

Albert Einstein

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single

intelligent man to the thoughtless approval

of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

1. Write down and practice your values.

2. Build a practice of contemplation.

3. Read. Expose yourself to people who had deeper thoughts than you.

You feel lonely not because nobody

is with you but because you are

not with you.

Shams Tabrizi

- Leave room for the unexpected.

- Find your unique way to contribute to someone's life.

- Set interesting goals and challenge yourself. Never stop learning.

- Slow down to appreciate what you already have.

- Fill your free time with meaningful hobbies.

Do not spoil what you have

by desiring what you have not;

remember that what you now have

was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

We live in a world where funerals are more

important than the deceased, marriage is more

important than love, looks are more important

than the soul. We live in a packaging

culture that despise content.

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead

where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know what your destiny will be,

but one thing I know: the only ones among you

who will be really happy are those

who sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de tvingar dig att gå

där du inga fotspår

har att lita på.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de gör all skam till din.

Du får söka tillflykt

lite längre in.

Det som hela världen dömer

reder sig ibland rätt väl.

Fågelfri var mången,

vann sin egen själ.

Den som tvingas ut i vildskog

ser med nyfödd syn på allt,

och han smakar tacksam

livets bröd och salt.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

när de bryter bort ditt skal.

Verklighet och kärna

blir ditt enda val.

Karin Boye

The Measure of Man

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

Human greatness does not lie in wealth

or power but in character and goodness.

Anne Frank

The human being cannot live in a condition

of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing

toward something, he does not merely stagnate;

the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity

and despair, and eventually into

destructive activities.

Rollo May

No man is more unhappy than he who never

faces adversity. For he is not permitted

to prove himself.

Seneca

The greatness of a man is not in how much

wealth he acquires, but in his integrity

and his ability to affect those

around him positively.

Bob Marley

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

Only a man who knows what it is like to be

defeated can reach down to the bottom of

his soul and come up with the extra

ounce of power it takes to win

when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

The obedient always thinks of themselves

as virtuous rather than cowardly.

George Carlin

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;

making the complicated simple, awesomely

simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Excellence in anything increases

your potential in everything.

Joe Rogan

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a

bank account but in the way we make others feel

and the way they make us feel.

Joe Rogan

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moment of comfort

and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

Man is an animal with primary instincts

of survival. Consequently his ingenuity

has developed first and his soul afterwards.

The progress of science is far ahead

of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

Compassion for animals is intimately associated

with goodness of character, and it may be

confidently asserted that he who is cruel

to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's highest duty is to protect

animals from cruelty.

 

Émile Zola

As long as man continues to be the ruthless

destroyer of other living beings, he will never

know health ot peace. For as long as men

massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder

and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

In forest, field and den,

The cry goes up to witness,

The soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that

in the process he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, in her indifference, makes no

distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Chaos was the law of nature;

order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

There comes a time when one must choose

between contemplation and action.

This is called becoming a man.

Albert Camus

Wokism & Infighting

The task is not, so much to see what no one

has seen yet; but to think what nobody has 

thought yet, about that which everybody sees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you have men who will exclude any of God's

creatures from the shelter of compassion,

you will have men who will deal

 likewise with their fellow men.

St. Francis of Assisi

Speciesism is like racism, sexism and

homophobia: it involves using a morally

irrelevant criterion to block membership

in the moral community.

Gary L. Francione

Injustice anywhere is a threat

to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others,

always as an end and never as a means

to an end.

Immanuel Kant

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 surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct

him to hold in higher esteem those who think

alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong minds discuss ideas,

average minds discuss events,

weak minds discuss people.

Socrates

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

Those who love peace must learn to organize

as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Evil people always support each other;

that is their chief strength.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When bad men combine, the good must

associate; else they will fall one by one.

Edmund Burke

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

If you don't take change by the hand,

it will take you by the throat.

Winston Churchill

To improve is to change;

to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

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.

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