Win - Win!

Give with an open heart and expect nothing in return.  

It's a win-win for everyone involved!

~Kim Franklin-Magana

 (written 5/7/12)

Cheer yourself UP!

“The best way to cheer yourself up

is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

~ Mark Twain

On Nov. 30, 1835, the small town of Florida, Mo. witnessed the birth of its most famous son. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was welcomed into the world as the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. Little did John and Jane know, their son Samuel would one day be known as Mark Twain - America's most famous literary icon. 

Approximately four years after his birth, in 1839, the Clemens family moved 35 miles east to the town of Hannibal. A growing port city that lie along the banks of the Mississippi, Hannibal was a frequent stop for steam boats arriving by both day and night from St. Louis and New Orleans. 

To continue reading about the life of Mark Twain and how he became famous, please visit:  http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/about/bio.htm

Charity...

Charity may begin at home, 

however 

it does not end at home.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

View more inspiring quotes here:  http://quotestheywrote.blogspot.com/

Contribute ...to the World!

Whatever it is you "do", do it... but better yet, 
share it with others!     

LISTENING       SINGING        BUILDING        CREATING         CLEANING  

              delivering                   SHOPPING         gardening

        COOKING       DRAWING               ASSISTING                TALKING       ANIMAL CARE

HELPING       WRITING      CARE GIVING        VOLUNTEERING          INSPIRING      WALKING   

Mentoring      STORY TELLING    teaching  

       ~Kim Franklin-Magana 

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature."
~Bruce Barton

Remember...Creativity is delicate.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

~Unknown   

Understand...

It is in identifying yourself 
with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others 
that you may understand them 
and help them.

~Wilferd A. Peterson 
(August 21, 1900 - June 2, 1995)

Exerpt taken from his biography:  His greatest influences from other writers and philosophers include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, among many others. His contemporaries include Norman Vincent Peale and Dale Carnegie, and current writers and philosophers such as Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy have referred to Wilferd Peterson's works.

Courtesy

The courtesies of a small and trivial character

are the ones which strike deepest

to the grateful and appreciating heart.

~Henry Clay