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

Challenge Your Own Limitations!

"Only those who will risk 

going too far 

can possibly find out 

how far one can go" 

~T.S.Eliot

Hopeful Wishes Fulfilled!

I am but the messenger, 

who just wants to say...

I am here to give you 

H O P E 

if only for today.

So take this gift I give to you

and cherish it, in kind.

The lesson that it teaches us

IS TO:

keep one another

IN MIND.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

L I F E is an Opportunity to L O V E.

Never let an opportunity

to express

thankfulness and awareness 

pass you by...

for that is

an opportunity lost.

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Expressions of 

LOVE,

CARING, 

GRATITUDE,

and THANKFULNESS,

are but gifts

that are for the giving

and sharing; 

carried within you

at all times, 

throughout this journey

called

L I F E. 

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Carpe Diem

"Seize the day", taken from a poem written in the Odes in 23 BC by the Latin poet Horace, Book 1, number 11.

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Give Thanks

1 Thessalonians 5:18

...encourage one another...build one another up...

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Just Do It!

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Today is the Day!

What Can You Contribute to the World?

“To be creative means to be in love with life.

You can be creative 

only if you love life enough 

that you want to enhance its beauty,

you want to bring a little more music to it, 

a little more poetry to it, 

a little more dance to it.” 

~Osho

DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE!

"The two most important days 

in your life 

are the day you are born 

and the day 

you find out why."

~Mark Twain

Explore your world...OUR WORLD!

L I V E... N O W !

Life is an experience of endless possibilities!  

What you choose and how much you choose, is all up to you.

Taste the richness of beauty all around you and bathe in the vastness of knowing you could never achieve the completion of realizing all there is to appreciate and understand about the place we live.

But, never give up trying, anyway.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Discover Your Work...

"Your work 

is to discover your work,

and then 

with all your heart 

to give 

yourself to 

it."  
~Buddha

Listen to your Inner Wisdom...

~WISDOM~

We can fill ourselves up with knowledge

and 

not be any closer to

hearing the wisdom

of our OWN Soul.

~ Jeanette Amlie

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a wise man once said...

“I have never let my schooling 

interfere with my education.”

~Mark Twain

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To learn more about Jeanette Amlie, please visit:  http://www.blueearthawakening.com/

Y O U are the Ocean!

You are not a drop in the ocean.

You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

~Rumi

Unlock the Potential!

Today holds all the possibilities 

and you hold the keys to unlock the potential 

for a successful outcome.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Your Inner Voice

Your Inner Voice

Follow your dreams 

and never second guess your inner voice 

that keeps reminding you

 of your souls desires.

~KIm Franklin-Magana

Y O U ! IMAGINE the Possibilities!

"Possibly the greatest waste in life

is    the    gap 
between

what    you    are

 and what you could become.”

~Zig Ziglar

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)

Express Yourself!

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, 

that single spark of divinity that sets you off 

and makes you different from every other living creature."
~Bruce Barton

Accept Yourself!

When you know yourself you are empowered.

When you accept yourself you are 

invincible. 

(Multi-colored meteorite)

~ Tina Lifford

SELF-EMPOWERMENT

Don't wait for others to empower you.  If you know what you are doing, claim it and move forward.  Permission, from others, not required.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

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Your character describes who you are to others...

“Winning is a habit.  Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs.  Watch your beliefs, they become your words.  Watch your words, they become your actions.  Watch your actions, they become your habits.  Watch your habits, they become your character.” 

~Vince Lombardi

The Early Years-

Lombardi was born in Brooklyn to Enrico "Harry" Lombardi and Matilda "Mattie" Izzo on June 11, 1913.  Harry's mother and father, Vincenzo and Michelina emigrated from Salerno, Italy. Mattie's father and mother, Anthony and Loretta, emigrated from an area several miles east of Salerno. Henry had three siblings and Matilda had twelve siblings. Vince would be the oldest of five children, Madeleine, Harold, Claire, and Joe. The entire Lombardi and Izzo clan settled in Sheepshead Bay.

Matilda's father, Anthony, opened up a barber shop in Sheepshead Bay prior to the turn of the century. At about the time of Lombardi's birth, Harry, and his brother, Eddie, opened a butcher shop in the Meatpacking District. Throughout the Great Depression, Harry's shop did well and his family prospered.  Lombardi grew up in an ethnically diverse, middle-class neighborhood. 

 To read more about this inspiring man, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi

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

Time...

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

~ Andy Warhol   "I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background, and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked." – Andy Warhol Andy Warhol, born in Pittsburgh in 1928, was an American artist and filmmaker. He is the figure head of the Pop art movement of the 1960s. Warhol brought focus to the banality of the commercial culture of the United States - creating and then pushing the artist envelope of his time. He became a worldwide celebrity, befriending and doing business with people in the highest social ranks. READ HIS ENTIRE BIOGRAPHY HERE:  http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875