The more helpless beings are, the more it is your true nature to love them
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to humankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
For the forest to be green
every tree must be green.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The mind creates the abyss
But the heart can cross it.
-Kulu Rinpoche
Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Gandhi
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
-Issac Bashevis Singer
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time they had been born to enjoy.
-Plutarch
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
-Markk Twain
No one can be perfectly free until all are free, no one can be perfectly moral until all are moral, no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
- Herbert Spencer
There is no way to peace.
Peace is the way.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The more we truly desire to benefit others, the greater the strength and confidence we develop and the greater the peace and happiness we experience.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Let it go. Let it out.
Let it all unravel.
Let it free and it can be
A path on which to travel.
- Leunig
I move with the infinite in
Nature's power
I hold the fires of the soul
I hold life and healing.
-Rig Veda
Dearest Jahara, I hope you enjoy a
perfect birthday! I'm thinking of you and sending you lots of happy wishes and big birthday hugs!
Love, Laurie P.S. Mia sounds so adorable! We wanna see pics!