I am only one, but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

If you think it is difficult to be vegetarian or vegan, imagine how difficult it is for
the animals that you are not vegetarian or vegan.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness…the energies of love.  Then, for the second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire. 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Fate"

The theosophical idea of charity (of giving to others) means personal exertion for others; personal mercy and kindness; personal interest in the welfare of those who suffer; personal sympathy, forethought and assistance in their troubles or needs.

H. P. Blavatsky

If you have humans who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have humans who will deal likewise with their fellow humans.

St Francis of Assisi
– quoted in "The Life by St Bonaventura"

Our duty as people is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow'.

The Talmud

Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.   

The Goddess of Mercy has a thousand hands – and needs them all. 

- A Japanese proverb

A course of experimental physiology in which brutes are agonised to exhibit facts already established, is a disgrace to the country that permits it.

- John Elliotson, MD, FRS, 1791-1868