Accept Yourself!

When you know yourself you are empowered.

When you accept yourself you are 

invincible. 

(Multi-colored meteorite)

~ Tina Lifford

SELF-EMPOWERMENT

Don't wait for others to empower you.  If you know what you are doing, claim it and move forward.  Permission, from others, not required.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

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Are we really ever wasting time?

"Creativity is the residue 

of wasted time." 

~ Albert Einstein

Einstein's education was disrupted by his father's repeated failures at business. In 1894, after his company failed to get an important contract to electrify the city of Munich, Hermann Einstein moved to Milan, Italy, to work with a relative. Einstein was left at a boarding house in Munich and expected to finish his education. Alone, miserable, and 

repelled by the looming prospect of military duty when he turned 16, Einstein ran away six months later and landed on the doorstep of his surprised parents. His parents realized the enormous problems that he faced as a school dropout and draft dodger with no employable skills. His prospects did not look promising.

 Excerpt taken from this excellent website: http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408?page=2

One step at a time... ;)

To get through the hardest journey 

we need take only one step at a time, 

but we must keep on stepping. 

~ Chinese Proverb

Create...a dream!

“Do you have a dream?  

If not, create one. 
Dreams are what keep us going.”

~Brent Hunter

 My real passion and main project is helping build bridges worldwide. This includes helping people find peace within themselves as well as building a bridge from war to peace in the 21st century: The Rainbow Bridge — The People’s Bridge — Humanity’s Bridge.

FIND OUT MORE HERE:  http://brenthunter.tv/

Faith...

“Faith sees a beautiful blossom

in a bulb,

a lovely garden

in a seed,

 and a giant oak

in an acorn.”

~William Arthur Ward 

Born and reared in Louisiana, Dr. Ward entered the United States Army as a private in 1942 and rose to the rank of captain. Part of his four years of military service was spent in the Philippines.

READ MORE HERE:  http://quotes-of-wisdom.eu/en/author/william-arthur-ward/biography

Throw, complain, stumble, climb, or BUILD!

 “We can throw stones, complain about them,

 stumble on them,  climb over them,

 or build with them.” 

~William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward (1921–1994), author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

More than 100 articles, poems and meditations written by Ward have been published in such magazines as Reader's Digest, This Week, The Upper Room, Together, The Christian Advocate, The Adult Student, The Adult Teacher, The Christian Home, The Phi Delta Kappan, Science of Mind, The Methodist Layman, Sunshine, and Ideals.  Further information regarding William A. Ward, found here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Ward

What's better than good?

Aim above morality. Be not simply good;

be good for something.

~Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 and died there in 1862, at the age of forty-four.

To continue reading, please visit:

 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/

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

Forgiveness = Freedom & Peace

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. 

Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

~Catherine Ponder

Ponder wrote her first prosperity book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity in the early 1960s whilst living in Birmingham, Alabama. Her life expanded dramatically whilst she was in the midst of finishing that book. She married and moved to the southwest, where her husband taught at the University of Texas. Much later, after her husband's death, her life changed again. In the early 1970s, another move took her to San Antonio, Texas. There she remarried and wrote a sequel to that earlier book, entitled Open Your Mind to Prosperity.

This is just an excerpt of her biography.  To read the complete version, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ponder

Arrive at your destiny!

"You are the driver in your life.  

Make the right turns, 

and you'll end up 

at your desired destiny". 

~Kim Franklin-Magana 

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

Don't wait for opportunity...

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” 

~Milton Berle

~a.k.a.:  UNCLE MILTIE  

Early life

Milton Berlinger was born into a Jewish family in a five-story walkup at 68 W. 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. He chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16. His father, Moses Berlinger (1873–1938), was a paint and varnish salesman. His mother, Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger (1877–1954),^[2] eventually became stagestruck and changed her name to Sandra Berle when Milton became famous.

Berle entered show business at the age of five when he won an amateur talent contest.^[3] He appeared as a child actor in silent films, beginning with The Perils of Pauline, filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey.^[4] The director told Berle that he would portray a little boy who would be thrown from a moving train. In Milton Berle: An Autobiography, he explained, "I was scared shitless, even when he went on to tell me that Pauline would save my life. Which is exactly what happened, except that at the crucial moment they threw a bundle of rags instead of me from the train. I bet there are a lot of comedians around today who are sorry about that."

By Berle's account, he continued to play child roles in other films: Bunny's Little Brother, Tess of the Storm Country, Birthright, Love's Penalty, Divorce Coupons and Ruth of the Range. Berle recalled, "There were even trips out to Hollywood—the studios paid—where I got parts in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, with Mary Pickford; The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Tillie's Punctured Romance, with Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Marie Dressler."

In Poppin' the Cork, 1933

However, Berle's claims to have appeared in many of these films, particularly the 1914 Chaplin Keystone comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance, are hotly disputed by some, who cite the lack of supporting evidence that Berle even visited the West Coast until much later. The newsboy role often claimed by Berle in Tillie was unquestionably played by resident Keystone child actor Gordon Griffith.

In 1916, Berle enrolled in the Professional Children's School, and at age 12 he made his stage debut in Florodora. After four weeks in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the show moved to Broadway. It catapulted him into a comedic career that spanned eight decades in nightclubs, Broadway shows, vaudeville, Las Vegas, films, television, and radio.

*TO CONTINUE ENJOYING THE READ, PLEASE CLICK HERE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Berle

Get to "IT"!

“Today is your day!…

Your mountain is waiting. So…

get on your way.”  

~Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel ( /ˈɡaɪzəl/; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.^[2]

He published 46 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter. His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Numerous adaptations of his work have been created, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

Geisel also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for PM, a New York City newspaper. During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the U.S Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss

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