Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To cultivate compassion, try to remember that others are doing the best they can, just like you, and that when someone does something abusive, they are getting something that they feel is positive from the experience.
Sharon Gannon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
Musician
Teacher
Writer
Remember
Abusive
Doe
Cultivate
Best
Compassion
Feel
Positive
Feels
Getting
Trying
Experience
Something
Others
Like
Someone
More quotes by Sharon Gannon
If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.
Sharon Gannon
Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.
Sharon Gannon
I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning.
Sharon Gannon
If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.
Sharon Gannon
Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.
Sharon Gannon
The most important thing to remember in life is to be kind.
Sharon Gannon
If you want to know if someone is a spiritual being ask yourself, Is he or she breathing? If the answer is yes, then you know that you are in the presence of a spiritual being.
Sharon Gannon
Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.
Sharon Gannon
We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species.
Sharon Gannon
Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness you are not likely to feel deprived or 'less than.' People steal because they feel deprived. They try to make up for their deficits by depriving others.
Sharon Gannon
To be political actually means to care about your community.
Sharon Gannon
It is true that veganism is a serious issue, but there should be fun involved. Why do anything if it doesn't bring some joy at the end of the day?
Sharon Gannon
Lions and other carnivorous animals do a lot of things besides eat meat. They live outdoors, not in houses they don't wear clothes or drive around in cars they usually sleep for many hours after eating a meal. Why cite just one of the many things that they do and argue that we should imitate them? This doesn't make much sense.
Sharon Gannon
Everything we do should contribute to happiness.
Sharon Gannon
We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.
Sharon Gannon
What you eat should not just be good for you but it should contribute to your happiness it should make you a happier person.
Sharon Gannon
Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.
Sharon Gannon
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
Sharon Gannon
Fishing is not a benign activity it is hunting in the water.
Sharon Gannon
When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
Sharon Gannon