Cooking is like LOVE!

 Cooking is like love.

It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

~Harriet van Horne

Harriet Van Horne (May 17, 1920 — January 15, 1998) was an American newspaper columnist and film/television critic. She was a writer for many years at the New York World-Telegram and its successors.
To read more about Harriet Van Horne, follow this link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Van_Horne

THIS is true!

This country will not be a good place

for any of us to live in unless

we make it a good place for all of us

to live in. 

~Theodore Roosevelt

Baking Bread...

Baking bread is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Successful People...

A successful person is one who

can lay a firm foundation

with the bricks

that others throw at him or her.

~David Brinkley



A second Spring? YES!

"Autumn is

       a second spring       

when every leaf

is a flower."

~Albert Camus

HAVE AN ADVENTURE!

“An adventure 
is only 
an inconvenience 
rightly considered. 

An inconvenience 
is only 
an adventure 
wrongly considered.”

~G.K Chesterton



BEFORE you give up...

BEFORE

you give up,

take a break,

take a breath,

then proceed

to prevail!

~Kim Franklin-Magana

TRUE Wealth $?

True wealth

is what you carry

on the inside.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Be Unique - be you ;)

"You have to be unique,

and different,

and shine in your own way."

~Lady Gaga


Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒʌrməˈnɑːtə/; born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. 
To read more about her life, so far, please visit:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga

Appreciation ='s Happiness

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

~Unknown Author

Turn...

Be like the flower,

 turn your face

to the sun.

~Kahlil Gibran



Another Day....

Another beautiful day, another beautiful gift!

~ Kim Franklin-Magana

Results!

On the sidelines, you see the game results. On the field, you understand the game, and the results. 
~Kim F-M

Change...

“If you change the way you look at things,

the things you look at change.”

~Dr. Wayne Dyer

DING!

“Put a ding in the universe.”

-Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc....

...Steve Jobs has widely been referred to as "legendary", a "futurist" or simply "visionary", and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution", a "master of innovation", and a "design perfectionist".
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS VISIONARY MAN, PLEASE VISIT:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Design in art...

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

David Herbert Lawrence

REAL Glory!

The real glory 
is being knocked to your knees 
and then coming back.

That's real glory.

~Vince Lombardi

Rise to Your Potential!

Kites rise highest against the wind,

not with it.

- Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a BritishConservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

TO CONTINUE READING, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

Follow the Leader...

Fish 
recognize 
a bad leader.
~Conan O'Brien

Build YOUR Wings!

"If we listened to our intellect, 

we'd never have a love affair. 

We'd never have a friendship. 

We'd never go into business, 

because we'd be cynical. 

Well, that's nonsense. 

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time 
and build your wings on the way down."
~Ray Bradbury

"Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years"

To read the more about this interesting man, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury

Achieving Great Success!

The most important key

to achieving great success

is to decide upon your goal and launch,

get started,

take action,

move.

~John Wooden

Enjoy the climb!

“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.”
~Harold B. Melchart



because...Dr. Seuss said!

“The more that you read, 
the more things you will know. 
The more that you learn, 
the more places you’ll go.”

~Dr. Seuss

If you want to pronounce the name the way his family did, say Zoice, not Soose. Seuss is a Bavarian name, and was his mother’s maiden name: Henrietta Seuss’s parents emigrated from Bavaria (part of modern-day Germany) in the nineteenth century. Seuss was also his middle name. (this is an excerpt from the coolest website I've EVER seen!)  To see more, don't miss out - click here:  http://www.seussville.com/#/home



Bitterness vs. Anger

Bitterness is like cancer.

It eats upon the host. 

But anger is like fire. 

It burns it all clean.
  ~Maya Angelou



Beauty Lies in the Details!

Whoever said that, 

(bug in the morning dew)

"beauty lies in the details,"

(newly bloomed flower)

 was surely referring to nature!

~Kim Franklin-Magana

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Abundance!

Paint

Bike
Swim
Spend Time with Friends and Family
Garden
Hike
Create
Volunteer your Talents
Explore
Vacation
Dream
Read
Cook
Build
Imagine
Sing
Play

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

~Wayne Dyer  

Do you remember?

I have found

that the best most memorable days

were the ones that didn't start off with a plan.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

REAL Talent vs. Modesty...or does it?

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
 ~ Louisa May Alcott

Like her character, "Jo March" in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy.  "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, "and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences ..."

For Louisa, writing was an early passion.  She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends.  Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays --"the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."

At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed:   "I will do something by and by.  Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!

*Excerpt taken from her complete biograghy here:  http://www.louisamayalcott.org/louisamaytext.html

Water and Cats?

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. 
It is restful just to see him.  

~William Lyon Phelps

NOSTALGIA!

It becomes increasingly easy,
as you get older,
to drown in nostalgia. 
~Ted Koppel