words of wisdom- words to live by

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
~Dalai Lama

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur and feathers is beyond my comprehension. ~Joseph Wood Krutch


If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animals for food, because . . . its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing. ~Tolstoy