Be Who You Are Because...

“Be who you are 
and say what you feel, 
because 
those who mind don’t matter, 
and 
those who matter don’t mind.” 
-Dr. Seuss



Don't Be a Scaredy Cat!

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros,

even in their own backyard.

~Colin Powell 

RULES of Life!

Life is uncertain.

Eat dessert first.

~Ernestine Ulmer

ALWAYS STRIVE TO DO YOUR BEST!

“Regard it 
as just as desirable 
to build a chicken house 
as to build a cathedral.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

I Can't...I Can!

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”


~Benjamin Mays



Memory...

Memory is a complicated thing,

a relative of truth,

but not it's twin.

~Barbara Kingsolver

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

S U C C E S S !

S U C C E S S !

“Success is what you attract by the person you become.”
~ Jim Rohn



Happy, happy!

Be happy.

 It's one way of being wise. 
~Colette



What is a weed?

What is a weed?  

A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let's "Do" This!

“Opportunity is missed by most people because

it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas A Edison

Tomato - Tomahto...

"A world without tomatoes

is like a string quartet

without violins."

- Laurie Colwin

Believe in Miracles!

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. 

~Bernard Berenson

Strategy vs. Results

However beautiful the strategy,

you should occasionally look at the results.

 -Winston Churchill

Universal Language...

Many languages are spoken here, 
but the universal language 
has no words. 


 ~Kim Franklin-Magana

Share Your Talents With Others!

“Use what talents you possess;
the woods will be very silent 
if no birds sang there 
except those that sang best.”
- Henry van Dyke

Keep Moving!

“Even if you’re on the right track,

you’ll get run over if you just sit there”
- Will Rogers

Just S M I L E !

;)

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, 
a beautiful thing. 


~Mother Teresa 

Beauty is all around you!

Slow down and see what's on your side of the fence.
  
Maybe other's wish they had your experience 


as much as you wish you had theirs.  


~Kim Franklin-Magana

Dare To Be YOU!

“Let us dare to be ourselves, 
for we do that better than 
anyone else can.”

~ Shirley Briggs

Affect the quality of your day!

"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, 
or to carve a statue, 
and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium 
through which we look, which morally we can do. 
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."

~ Henry David Thoreau

Point of View...

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.   ~H. Fred Dale

Find Peace...wherever you are!

But I try to steal other moments. 

Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and 

cup of tea before the craziness 

begins. 

Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. 

You can find peace in a few minutes. 

~Cindy Crawford

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

What are you thinking?

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

SUCCESS!

Success is full of promise till one gets it, 
and then it seems like a nest 
from which the bird 
has flown.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Celebrate, wherever you are!

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade

Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. ~Aurora Raigne

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis

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



Confidence

Confidence

 comes 
not from always being right 
but from not fearing 
to be wrong.
- Peter T. McIntyre

The Wealth of Time!

“An unhurried sense of time 
is in itself 
a form of wealth.”

― Bonnie Friedman