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The 07/03/13 Joy Jar

3 Jul

Tomorrow is the 4th of July and aside from celebrating this country and all it represents, moi is turning the 4th into a day of rest. She is going to the Seattle Art Museums which are FREE, going to read and get a big ice cream cone. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are days of rest.

“Rest and be thankful.”
William Wordsworth

“Silence

It has a sound, a fullness.
It’s heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It’s ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It’s golden they say.
But no one tells us it’s addictive.”
Angela Long

“I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.”
Shirley Conran

“There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).”
Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.”
Charles R. Swindoll

“If I’d waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.”
Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“Everything needs a break.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

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The 07/02/13 Joy Jar

3 Jul

 

The Fourth of July which celebrates America and the aspirational goal of what America means. There is a constant fight to preserve the traditions of democracy which so many take for granted or don’t even have a clue that thwy have. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the idea of democracy.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy

Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

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The 07/01/13 Joy Jar

1 Jul

 

Today is the first day of July. The year is over half completed. Moi began the exercise of the ‘Joy Jar’ when that Mayan end of the world thing went belly up. She was grateful that she was still standing. Bet many of you were grateful as well. So, to ‘cultivate an attitude of gratitude’ moi puts something in the ‘Joy Jar’ every day. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ comes form Smart Office Pro:

 

31 inspiring quotes for July

 

01 Jul

 

Quick link: 34 inspirational quotes for July 2012

 

Inspirational and motivational quotes for July 2011.

 

Please follow Smart Office Pro if you would rather get a daily quote via Twitter.

 

“It is the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.”
– Anthony Robbins

 

“The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.”
– Japanese proverb

 

“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.”
– Voltaire

 

“A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.”
– Chinese proverb

 

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”
– Aldous Huxley

 

“We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.”
– Seneca

 

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
– Thomas Paine

 

“There is always room at the top.”
– Daniel Webster

 

“There is more happiness in doing your own path without excellence than in doing another’s path well.”
– the Bhagavad Gita

 

“Those that are afraid of bad luck will never know good.”
– Russian proverb

 

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to you. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”
– John Neal

 

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
– Christopher Morley

 

“It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.”
– John Crowe

 

“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous act without benefit of experience.”
– Henry Miller

 

“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.”
– Indira Gandhi

 

“No great thing is created suddenly.”
– Epictetus

 

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
– Indian proverb

 

“Work like you don’t need the money.”
– Mark Twain

 

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
– Napoleon Hill

 

“Success is the child of audacity.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

 

“What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
– Samuel Johnson

 

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!”
– Jim Ryun

 

“I’ve got something inside me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I’m in it till the end of the race.”
– Truman Capote

 

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn’t turn out, we modify it.”
– FDR

 

“People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.”
– Pete Zafra

 

“Accept  and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.”
– Lori Hard

 

“If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.”
– Shelley Long

 

“A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it.”
– Alistair Cooke

 

“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”
– Booker T. Washington

 

“Follow your dream as long as you live… for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.”
– Plato

 

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The 06/30/13 Joy Jar

30 Jun

 

Moi has been thinking quite a bit about tolerance and what that means. The Free Dictionary defines tolerance:

 

1. The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.

 

2.

 

a. Leeway for variation from a standard.

 

b. The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.

 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tolerance

 

 

Most folk are tolerant of those who believe exactly as they do or who look and act like them. The hard part of tolerance is extending those same courtesies to those who are different. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar; is the aspirational goal of tolerance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.”
Ray Davis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, “At the very least, you will be polite to them.”
Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
Thomas Jefferson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair…the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”
Dorothy L. Sayers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it’s covered;
For inside those tattered pages,
There’s a lot to be discovered”
Stephen Cosgrove

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”
Martin Luther King Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
Thomas Paine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.”
Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

 

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The 06/29/13 Joy Jar

29 Jun

 

 

The Corvette just turned 60. Prince has one of the best songs ever – ‘Little Red Corvette.’ It is still Seattle Hot. How do these things tie together? Well, just for the summer, moi would love to have a little red Corvette convertible and she would play Prince loud, really loud. The summer would end and the car would get put away. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s imaginary little red Corvette with Prince blaring on the sound system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose

 

Dale Earnhardt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.

 

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.

 

Scott Adams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t drive as if you owned the road Drive as if you owned the car

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear

 

Dave Barry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery — it recharges by running.

 

Bill Watterson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window”

 

Steve Bluestone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

 

Brian Tracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on

 

Budd Schulberg

 

 

 

 

 

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The 06/28/13 Joy Jar

28 Jun

Hot weather in Seattle is reletive in comparison to the rest of the country. We don’t have the 110+ weather of las Vegas or Phoenix, but 88 in Seattle makes folk start to complain. Today was the first hot day in Seattle and there promises to be, according to the weather minds, several more days to follow. Even hot and uncomfortable days have their place, they make one appreciate those days when it is not too cold, not too warm, not too rainy, and not too cloudy. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are hot summer days which make one appreciate perfect temperature days.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
St. Francis of Assisi

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
Ada Louise Huxtable

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Jane Austen

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

Every summer has a story.

Unknown

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The 06/27/13 Joy Jar

27 Jun

Responsible fireworks are very beautiful. Every year Seattle has had a sponsored fireworks display at Lake Union on the Fourth of July. It;s beautiful and is attended by thousands of people who celebrate the holiday. This fireworks display is safe and san and can be viewed from many vantage points. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are those fireworks displays that are safe and sane.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
Maria Callas

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.
James Lafferty

Just a reminder that fireworks look even more amazing when you’re not constantly checking your iPhone.

Unknown

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Neil Armstrong

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The 06/26/13 Joy Jar

26 Jun

 

Moi has several in her house. You probably have several in your house. They are in the workplace, at the mall -they are everywhere. They are on the street. Sometimes people want to kick the can down the street. You really don’t notice them until you are ready to deposit garbage or trash or they have been knocked over and their contents spilled. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the garbage can.

“God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess them up”

Lillian Hellman

“A work desk is a garbage can with drawers”

Unknown

“In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.”

Woody Allen

“If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.”

Unknown

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein

“I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.”

Beverly Sills

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The 06/25/13 Joy Jar

25 Jun

 

Moi had the great pleasure of attending ’30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ at the Seattle Art Museum. It was simply a stunning show. The fact that 100 pieces of exquisite haute couture were exhibited in one place for the public to see was amazing. That is what museums do, they amaze us with things few of us could acquire and many of us would never see. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are museums.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
Jerry Saltz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
Henry James

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart’s compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.”
Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.”
Richard Fortey, Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.” Chesterton, Gilbert K. on museums and galleries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

 

Edmond De Goncourt quotes 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

 

Pablo Picasso

 

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The 06/24/13 Joy Jar

24 Jun

 

Walking gives one a different perspective than riding in a car or on a bus. Walking through urban neighborhoods is particularly a fest for the eyes and the senses. One things than many urban neighborhood have is plenty of neon signs and lights. Some garish, some tasteful, but designed to make one look. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are urban neon signs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. 

 

James Thurber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space.  It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.  It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. 

 

Michael Strassfeld

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. 

 

Aaron Rose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. 

 

Sven Nykvist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. — Rudi Stern”
Philip Di Lemme, American Streamline: A Handbook Of Neon Advertising Design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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