IMAGINATION VS. KNOWLEDGE

"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. 

For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, 

while imagination embraces the entire world, 

and all there ever will be

to know and understand." 

~Albert Einstein

P E A C E...when will we know?

"When the power of love 

overcomes the love of power, 

the world will know peace." 

~Jimi Hendrix

High Hopes!

“Strength does not come from physical capacity.

 It comes from an indomitable will.”

~Mahatma Gandhi

Song & Lyrics:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOOTF8vu6ps

Y E S ! Bless Your Enemy!

Bless your enemy,

and you rob him of his ammunition.

His arrows will be transmuted into blessings.

This law is true of nations as well as individuals.

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Bless a nation,

send love and good-will to every inhabitant,

and it is robbed of its power to harm.

~ Florence S. Shinn

(1871-1940)

Her metaphysical works began with her self-published The Game of Life and How to Play it in 1925. Your Word is Your Wand was published in 1928 and The Secret Door to Success in 1940. The Game of Life and How to Play it includes quotes from the Bible and anecdotal explanations of the author's understanding of God and man. Her philosophy centers on the power of positive thought and usually includes instructions for verbal or physical affirmation.

A typical Scovel Shinn piece of advice would be "It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, 'Love one another,' and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every trick."  

TO CONTINUE READING MORE AND FIND OUT ABOUT BOOKS WRITTEN BY THIS AUTHOR, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Scovel_Shinn

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 

CONTROL!

"The measure of a man's estimate 

of your strength 

is the kind of weapons he feels

 that he must use 

in order to hold you fast 

in a prescribed place."

~ Harold Whitman

I Will Try, Again!

Courage doesn’t always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice

at the end of the day saying,

“I will try again tomorrow.”

 ~Mary Anne Radmacher

WISDOM & POWER

WISDPOWERM

The attempt to combine 

wisdom and power 

has only 

rarely been successful 

and then 

only 

for a short while. 

~Albert Einstein

Born March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, Albert Einstein became an independent scholar of physics after his formal education. In the early 1900s he developed the special and general theories of relativity. He went on to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is still generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. 

READ MORE HERE:  http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408

Overnight SUCCESS?

Everyone else trains just as hard as well 
and that there really is no such a thing 
as

overnight success.
~Julie Benz

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

Tranquility...

The more tranquil a man becomes, 
the greater is his success, 
his influence, 
his power for good.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

~James Allen

Failure vs. Success

“Don’t waste your time hating  failure.

Failure is a greater teacher than success.”

― Clarissa Pinkola-Estés

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES - One's Utmost Power!

What lies behind us

and what lies before us

are tiny matters

compared to what lies

within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

US essayist & poet (1803-1882)

Providence

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, a chance to draw back always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless dreams and splendid plans. That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too."

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PROVIDENCE

"Divine guidance or care.

God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding 
human destiny."

Poet, Novelist, and Scientist

"Each indecision brings it's own delays 
and days are lost lamenting over lost days...
What you can do or think you can do, begin it. 
 For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it"

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749-1832, Poet, Novelist, and Scientist