Ability, Motivation, and Attitude!

B E Great...Again!

"You had

the potential

to be great.

And what you don't get,

is that you still have

the potential to be great."

-Chris Powell, Fitness Trainer

Inspiration

 is shared

from the heart.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

As individuals think and believe, so they are.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

~Claude Bristol

“To have the rewards

 that very few have, 

do the things

 that very few people 

are willing to do.” 

~ Robin Sharma

Turn Dreams into Action!

 Don't allow your dreams 

to only be dreams.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

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

Imagination!

The true sign of intelligence

 is not knowledge

 but imagination.

Albert Einstein 

Life Experiences that Heal

L I F E  teaches us:

We can heal from anything.

And...come back stronger, because of the experience.

~Kim F-M

Kindness Counts

“Three things in human life are important:

the first is to be kind; 

the second is to be kind; 

and the third is to be kind.”

~Henry James

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.
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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

You Are Beautiful!

Sometimes beauty 

is not seen 

by the very one 

who possesses it.

~Kim F-M

Discover L I F E Everyday!

“Anyone who stops learning is old, 

whether at 20 or 80. 

Anyone who keeps learning

 stays young. 

The greatest thing in life

 is to

 keep your mind young.” 

~Henry Ford

Forgive & Forget!

When we forgive and forget...

that

 is

getting even.

~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

Strive to be Better!

Strive not to be perfect...

rather, strive to be

better than you were

yesterday.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

The Importance of Expression Through Art

“The aim of art 

is to represent not the outward 

appearance of things, 

but their inward 

significance.” 

~Aristotle

HAPPY ACCIDENTS?

A "Happy Accident" is first thought to be a mistake, but replaces and improves what was once there.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Feed Your Soul!

Dreams...

 

are 

 Nourishment 

for the Soul! 

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Challenge Your Own Limitations!

"Only those who will risk 

going too far 

can possibly find out 

how far one can go" 

~T.S.Eliot

R E L A X Your Mind...

Be like the wave that breaks on shore...

release the energy, 

let go, 

be free!

~Kim Franklin-Magana

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!

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice...

“A man’s wisdom  gives him patience;  it is to his glory  to overlook an  offense."

(Proverbs 19:11)

Francis Bacon. (1561–1626).  Essays Civil and Moral. The Harvard Classics.  1909–14. IV Of Revenge

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence. That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong’s sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like. Therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy; but then let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man’s enemy is still before hand, and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh. This is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent. But base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God’s hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Cæsar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of Henry the Third of France; and many more. But in private revenges it is not so. Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate.

Snap Out of IT!

You 
can't 
wake a person

who 
is pretending
to be asleep.

~ Navajo Proverb

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

Talk About What Really Matters!

“Great minds discuss ideas. 

 Average minds discuss events. 

Small minds discuss people.” 

~Eleanor Roosevelt