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

Love vs. Hate...

Stop hating

and

Start loving.
♡♡♡

L o v e
is all
that
Matters
in the end.
♡♡♡♡♡

~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

HAPPY ACCIDENTS?

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

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Paradise Lost...

“The true paradises 

are the paradises

that we have lost.”

 ~Marcel Proust

It's Your Decision!

You decide what kind of day it is 

by your own interpretation 

of the world around you.

~Kim Franklin-Magana 

Happiness is Invincible Power!

Resolve to keep happy,

and your joy and you

shall form an invincible host

against difficulties.

 ~ Helen Keller

Release Your Creativity!

Creativity 

shows 

who you are 

on the 

inside!

~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)

Be a Happy Optimist!

If 
people are happy 

nobody 
can drag them 
into a war.  

~Osho

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents' house in Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

Ego and the mind

According to Osho, every human being is a Buddha with the capacity for enlightenment, capable of unconditional love and of responding rather than reacting to life, although the ego usually prevents this, identifying with social conditioning and creating false needs and conflicts and an illusory sense of identity that is nothing but a barrier of dreams.  Otherwise man's innate being can flower in a move from the periphery to the center.

Osho views the mind, first and foremost, as a mechanism for survival; replicating behavioural strategies that have proven successful in the past. But the mind's appeal to the past, he said, deprives human beings of the ability to live authentically in the present, causing them to repress genuine emotions and to shut themselves off from joyful experiences that arise naturally when embracing the present moment: "The mind has no inherent capacity for joy. ... It only thinks about joy." The result is that people poison themselves with all manner of neuroses, jealousies and insecurities. He argued that psychological repression, often advocated by religious leaders, makes suppressed feelings re-emerge in another guise, and that sexual repression resulted in societies obsessed with sex. Instead of suppressing, people should trust and accept themselves unconditionally. This should not merely be understood intellectually, as the mind could only assimilate it as one more piece of information: instead meditation was needed.

Read more about Osho here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)

YOUR in Control!

You don't need anyone else's permission to be happy. 

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is,

 but because you choose to see it as such. 

~ Ralph Marston

 "Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

~Ralph Marston


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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

Learn from everything!

There is something to be learned 
from every experience, 
every challenge, 
every victory, 
and every defeat.  
Learn from everything.  

~Kim Franklin-Magana  

Gratefully content...

“There was a man who was complaining about having no shoes 

until he saw a man with no feet” 

~Persian proverb

What is happiness?

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, 

but a manner of traveling.”

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Margaret Lee Runbeck (U.S. author, 1905-1956) 
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Margaret Lee Runbeck first appeared in print a few weeks before her thirteenth birthday.  

For more reading, please visit:  http://runbeck.org/content/quotes-margaret-lee-runbeck

Childhood...

“Childhood 

is the most beautiful

of all life's seasons.”

― Anonymous

 

All good things...

"Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; 

talk less, say more; hate less, love more; 

and all good things are yours." 

~Swedish proverb

A walk in my garden...

If I had a flower

for every time I thought of you, 

I could walk in my garden

forever." 

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much ofQueen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language.  TO READ MORE, PLEASE VISIT:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

Blossom YOUR Soul!

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;

they are the charming gardeners 

 who make our souls blossom.” 

~Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated asRemembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

HAVE AN ADVENTURE!

“An adventure 
is only 
an inconvenience 
rightly considered. 

An inconvenience 
is only 
an adventure 
wrongly considered.”

~G.K Chesterton