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

Tags: life kindness equality compassion animal-rights life-affirming specieism

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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

Tags: life kindness equality compassion animals vegetarianism animal-rights vegan veganism vegetarian life-affirming ethical-vegan speciesism

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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

Tags: life-affirming

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I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Matthew Quick

Tags: hope life-affirming

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If you have no more happiness to give me, /
Well then! you still have your pain.

Lou Andreas-Salomé

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags: motivational inspirational strength power inspiration world stars universe creation existentialism motivation astronomy rebirth life-affirmation will-to-power life-affirming overman wreckage

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