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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #5
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #8
    Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat,
    “Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
    Gary L. Francione

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    Gary L. Francione
    “Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice”
    Gary L. Francione

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

  • #12
    “Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”
    T. Casey Brennan

  • #13
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

  • #14
    Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
    “It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.”
    Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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  • #16
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “My actions are my only true belongings.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

  • #17
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

  • #18
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh

  • #19
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Compassion is a verb.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh

  • #20
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power: A Zen Master's Guide to Redefining Power, Achieving True Freedom and Discovering Lasting Happiness in a Stressful World

  • #21
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

  • #22
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power: A Zen Master's Guide to Redefining Power, Achieving True Freedom and Discovering Lasting Happiness in a Stressful World

  • #23
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

  • #24
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #25
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

  • #26
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

  • #27
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh

  • #28
    Dante Alighieri
    “O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

  • #29
    Dante Alighieri
    “Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

  • #30
    Dante Alighieri
    “Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso



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