“I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally (not in that order). When I say that I 'came out,' I mean that I resolved to never lie about my love for women, never deliberately pass for straight, and never deny a lover by calling her 'him.' To do so, I felt, would be to betray not only the women I desired, but my deepest self. My decision to quit meat was equally simple. Somehow, through the confluence of midseventies influences, I knew that vegetarianism was a particularly healthy way to eat. One day, quite suddenly, I realized: If I didn't need to eat meat to stay alive, then eating meat was killing for pleasure. I couldn't live with myself, wouldn't be the nonviolent person I believed myself to be, if I killed other beings--beings who had their own desires--merely to satisfy my desire for the taste of their flesh. Looking back, I see that both decisions, coming out and quitting meat, are about the interplay of desire and integrity. Sometimes integrity means being true to your desires, and sometimes integrity requires you to refuse your desires. I also notice that both decisions were about bodies and consent. A primary tenet of gay liberation is that what consenting people do with each other's bodies is nobody else's business. And, of course, eating meat is something you do to somebody else's body without their consent.” IntegrityMeatComing OutAnimalsConsent Author:pattrice jones
“When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.” InspirationalMotivationalHappinessSuccessJoyPassionChangeHumilityIntegrityAchievementGoals Author:George Alexiou
“He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.” BeautifulRichIntegrityPuppy LoveLovesick Book:Ain't She Sweet? Source: Ain't She Sweet?
“Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help.” InspirationalIntegrity Author:Leila Summers
“The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.” Integrity Author:Tad R. Callister
“Sometimes standing alone makes you stronger than hiding in a group. When you choose to stand when those close to you are sitting down, it speaks volumes about your integrity and character. It's when those who stand alone come together that the opposite is true.” Integrity Author:Lori Goodwin
“After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.” SoulFaithIntegrityEgoHoliness Author:Gary Gordon
“My atoms love you atoms, it’s chemistry.” LovePoetryQuotesPoemsInstagramWildHerLove Her WildAtticus PoetryAtticuspoetry Author:Atticus Poetry
“I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.” TruthJusticeHonorIntegrity Author:The Great Pacifist