Oreos and Broccoli

You have to push yourself to get results.

Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? If you stop and think about it, it’s crazy. Why doesn’t a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it? It’s easy to dismiss that question but hard to respond to it. And how would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.

—Eating Animals by Jonathon Safran Foer (via boldnative)

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Five Inspirational Yoga Quotes

“This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.” – Bhagavad Gita

“Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.” — Krishnamacharya

“A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” — T. Guillemets

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.” – Upanishads

“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