#affirm

I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being. ↗

— Rai Aren

#animals #compassion #equality #ethical-vegan #kindness

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us... ↗

— Rai Aren

#compassion #equality #kindness #life #life-affirming

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right. ↗

— Annie Bryant

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #humanity #life-advice #self-assurance

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#life

Yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. ↗

— James Joyce

#flowers

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#chaos #cosmos #faith #life #peace

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#consists #false #knowledge #negation #only

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#applause #because #go #into #people

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#clean #honest #meant #minimalist #music

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#areas #creates #deserve #recognition #sense