Ava Darling

Works of Love...are
...Works of Peace...

Everything that irritates us
about other people, can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves.
~Carl Jung~

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
I did not wish to live what was not life...
I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like
as to put to rout all that was not life...
to drive life into a corner to know it by experience
and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion."

~Thoreau~

Twelve Signs of a Spiritual Awakening
(Source Unknown)

.1. An increased tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.

.2. Frequent attacks of smiling.

.3. Feelings of being connected with others and nature.

.4. Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

.5. A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from fears based experience.

.6. An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

.7. A loss of ability to worry.

.8. A loss of interest in conflict.

.9. A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

.10. A loss of interest in judging others.

.11. A loss of interest in judging self.

.12. Gaining the ability to love without expecting anything in return.

- Get Your Own


Real Happiness with Love

don't be afraid
to love someone
totally and completely
love is the most fulfilling
and beautiful feeling in the world
don't be afraid that you will
get hurt
or that the other person
won't love you as much
there is a risk in
everything you do
and the rewards
are never so great
as what love can bring
so let yourself get involved
completely and honestly
and enjoy the possibility
that what happens
might be the only real
source of happiness
--AVL--

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"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
--Jeremy Bentham, philosopher

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
--Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921

Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Well Done is better than Well Said.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
-- Socrates

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
-- John Stuart Mill

"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
--Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-- Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
--Thomas Edison, inventor

"Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics."
--Peter Singer

"You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say, Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her."
--Ellen DeGeneres

"If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant

"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
--Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher

"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does the inaction spoil the intellect."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

It's important that people should know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for.
-- Mary H. Waldrip

Ignorance is not bliss -- it is oblivion.
-- Phillip Wylie

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
-- Edith Sitwell

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
--Simone Weil

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
--Pythagoras, mathematician

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
--Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist

"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime."
--Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915

"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
--George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize 1925

"In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
--Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
--Leo Tolstoy author

"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."
--Leo Tolstoy author

"I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished."
--Henry David Thoreau, author

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
--George Bernard Shaw

"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."
--George Bernard Shaw

"I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it."
--Mohandas Gandhi, statesman and philosopher

"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 toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."

"He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit."
--Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night"

"May all that have life be delivered from suffering."
--Buddha

"A righteous man takes care of his beast, but the heart of the wicked is merciless."
--Proverbs 12:10

"I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood all over the place. That was enough for me."
--Josh Hartnett

"Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful."
--Alicia Silverstone

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
--Vincent Van Gogh