Live Life Now!

“If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man… 

Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”

~The Alchemist

A Happy Attitude!

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

— Hugh Downs

Happiness Enjoyed!

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness,  

not because they never found it, 

but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it."

-William Feather

Love vs. Hate...

Stop hating

and

Start loving.
♡♡♡

L o v e
is all
that
Matters
in the end.
♡♡♡♡♡

~Kim Franklin-Magana

RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR!

Resolutions are wishes

 we make to ourselves;

 promises to keep,

 in order to attain a higher level 

of happiness and fulfillment

 in our lives.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Truly Happy!

Be inspired

 by the beauty that surrounds you. 

Be in awe 

of the marvels of life. 

Be content 
with the mysteries of life 
that will await future generations to discover.

 Be thankful

 for the many gifts you have in your life.  

Then, 

and only then,

  will you truly be happy.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Fulfillment and Happiness

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.

Just because they're not on our road 

doesn't mean 

they've gotten

lost.

~ H. Jackson Brown. Jr.

Be a Happy Optimist!

If 
people are happy 

nobody 
can drag them 
into a war.  

~Osho

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents' house in Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

Ego and the mind

According to Osho, every human being is a Buddha with the capacity for enlightenment, capable of unconditional love and of responding rather than reacting to life, although the ego usually prevents this, identifying with social conditioning and creating false needs and conflicts and an illusory sense of identity that is nothing but a barrier of dreams.  Otherwise man's innate being can flower in a move from the periphery to the center.

Osho views the mind, first and foremost, as a mechanism for survival; replicating behavioural strategies that have proven successful in the past. But the mind's appeal to the past, he said, deprives human beings of the ability to live authentically in the present, causing them to repress genuine emotions and to shut themselves off from joyful experiences that arise naturally when embracing the present moment: "The mind has no inherent capacity for joy. ... It only thinks about joy." The result is that people poison themselves with all manner of neuroses, jealousies and insecurities. He argued that psychological repression, often advocated by religious leaders, makes suppressed feelings re-emerge in another guise, and that sexual repression resulted in societies obsessed with sex. Instead of suppressing, people should trust and accept themselves unconditionally. This should not merely be understood intellectually, as the mind could only assimilate it as one more piece of information: instead meditation was needed.

Read more about Osho here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)

HAPPINESS...is the KEY! GET THE KEY!

Success is not the key to happiness. 

Happiness is the key to success.

 If you love what you are doing, 

you will be successful. 

~ Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was born into an Alsatian family which for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education. His father and maternal grandfather were ministers; both of his grandfathers were talented organists; many of his relatives were persons of scholarly attainments...

...Having decided to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, Schweitzer in 1905 began the study of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. In 1913, having obtained his M.D. degree, he founded his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, but in 1917 he and his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war. Released in 1918, Schweitzer spent the next six years in Europe, preaching in his old church, giving lectures and concerts, taking medical courses, writing On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, The Decay and Restoration of Civilization, Civilization and Ethics, and Christianity and the Religions of the World.

ENJOY READING THE COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY BY CLICKING HERE:  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1952/schweitzer-bio.html

Learn from everything!

There is something to be learned 
from every experience, 
every challenge, 
every victory, 
and every defeat.  
Learn from everything.  

~Kim Franklin-Magana  

What is happiness?

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, 

but a manner of traveling.”

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Margaret Lee Runbeck (U.S. author, 1905-1956) 
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Margaret Lee Runbeck first appeared in print a few weeks before her thirteenth birthday.  

For more reading, please visit:  http://runbeck.org/content/quotes-margaret-lee-runbeck

Blossom YOUR Soul!

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;

they are the charming gardeners 

 who make our souls blossom.” 

~Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated asRemembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

NEVER too late!

“It is never too late
to be
who
you
might have been.”
-George Eliot 

TRUE Wealth $?

True wealth

is what you carry

on the inside.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Appreciation ='s Happiness

“Happiness 
will never come 
to those 
who fail to appreciate 
what they already have.”

~Unknown Author

Another Day....

Another beautiful day, another beautiful gift!

~ Kim Franklin-Magana

Being Happy in the Present Moment!

Try to be happy in this present moment, 
and put not off being so to a time to come, 
as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
~Thomas Fuller

Kaleidoscope of Possibilities!

 At the height of laughter,

the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope

of new possibilities.

~Jean Houston

Jean Houston (born 10 May 1937) is an American scholar, lecturer, author, and philosopher active in the "human potential movement". 

http://www.jeanhouston.com/Social-Artistry/social-artistry.html

SUCCESS vs. FAILURE

I don't know the key to success,

but the key to failure 
is trying to please everybody. 
~Bill Cosby

Real Elation!

Real elation 
is when you feel 
you could touch a star 
without standing on tiptoe. 
~Doug Larson