#ene

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#animal-advocates #animals #apathy #defensiveness #social-condition

The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#enemy #hostility #jesus #love #love

If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first taking a pill, if birds and flowers, mountains and sea still inspire you, you are a most fortunate individual and you should get down on your knees morning and night and thank the good Lord for his savin' and keepin' power. If you are young in years but already weary in spirit, already on your way to becoming an automaton, it may do you good to say to your boss - under your breath, of course - "Fuck you, Jack! you don't own me." If you can whistle up your ass, if you can be turned on by a fetching bottom or a lovely pair of teats, if you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from going sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked. ↗

— Henry Miller

#eighty #life #forgiveness

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#happiness #love #perspective #self-awareness #love

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#absolutely nothing #best #completely #generation #hope

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment. ↗

— Eddie Albert

#i #important #important thing #look #love

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. ↗

— Edward Albert

#born #enemy #fear #hate #ignorance

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#centuries #contemporary #context #epiphany #exciting

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightened #enlightening #enlightenment #love #transcendence

You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#enemy #love #people #relationships #love