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

Snap Out of IT!

You 
can't 
wake a person

who 
is pretending
to be asleep.

~ Navajo Proverb

Talk About What Really Matters!

“Great minds discuss ideas. 

 Average minds discuss events. 

Small minds discuss people.” 

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Love Yourself

If there is no enemy within, 

the enemy without can do you no harm.

~African Proverb

Discover New Connections!

Share your personal experiences

with other people 

and you will discover 
connections and commonalities

you never knew existed.

~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.

Dis...Connect

When people don’t understand you, 

they’re probably not asking the right questions 

or any questions, at all. 

~Kim Franklin-Magana  

When to "Get Even"...

“The only people 

with whom you should try to get even, 

are those who have helped you.”

~John E. Southard

Empathy...

Empathy is designed to put yourself 

in another person’s shoes 

to feel their feelings, 

as though it was happening to you.  

Then you speak...

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Become G R E A T !

Keep away 
from people who try to belittle your ambitions. 

Small people always do that, 

but the really great make you feel that 

you, too, can become great. 

~ Mark Twain

Helping Someone, Helps Everyone!

"Be not a hindrance, but a helper 

to your fellow man; 

just as you would wish them to be, 

in your time of need."

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Helping Someone:  Anything positive, that you can contribute, which benefits people beyond yourself, 

is helping someone. 

(...and it still counts, even when no one is looking!)

Pain is an Opportunity to Learn!

There is Wisdom and Power in Pain

Pain teaches you many things about yourself.  

It shows you just what you are made of and how to overcome obstacles.  

It becomes an opportunity to view the world and other people through a completely new set of eyes.

  Pain allows us to grow, to reach, and to achieve a higher awareness of self.

Pain is an opportunity to learn.

~Kim Franklin-Magana 

Your Real Passion is in Your Dreams!

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;

ask yourself what makes you come alive,

and then go and do that.

Because what the world needs

are people who have come alive.

~ Harold Whitman

(1899-1981)

Make the best of what you have...

“Things turn out best 

for the people who 

make the best 

of the way things 

turn out.” 

~~~~~~~~

~John Wooden

(1910-2010)

READ MORE ABOUT THIS INTERESTING MAN 

HERE:

 http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/woo0bio-1

Become Your Dream(s)!

There are some people who live in a dream world,

and there are some who face reality; 

and then there are those 

who turn one into the other. 

-Douglas H. Everett

So, keep dreaming and may all your wishes become reality!

~Kim Franklin-Magana 

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)

What People Say vs. What People Do...

The older I get 

the less I listen to what people say 

and the more I look at what they do. 

~ Andrew Carnegie

FULL-TIME PHILANTHROPIST

When Carnegie retired from business in 1901, he set about in earnest to distribute his fortune. In addition to libraries, he provided hundreds of church organs to local communities.  Carnegie's wealth helped to establish numerous colleges, schools, nonprofit organizations and associations both in his adopted country, as well as in Scotland and throughout the globe. His most significant contribution, both in terms of money and in terms of enduring influence, was the establishment of several endowed trusts or institutions bearing his name.

By the time of his death in 1919, Andrew Carnegie had given away about $350 million, but the legacy of his generosity continues to unfold in the work of the trusts and institutions that he endowed.

Very interesting read!  Please continue to enjoy here:  http://carnegie.org/about-us/foundation-history/about-andrew-carnegie/

Compassionate Understanding...

People need loving the most 

when they deserve it the least. 

~John Harrigan 

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