Tag Archives: Joy Jar

The 06/12/13 Joy Jar

11 Jun

 

Yesterday’s ‘Joy Jar’ was to give thanks for being human. Humans have a wide variety of characteristics from they walk with Angels to satan wouldn’t have them in the family because they are so evil. The best human qualities form a tapestry called humane. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the quality of being humane.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison

One can not be just if one is not humane.
Luc de Clapiers

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Jef Raskin

One can not be just if one is not humane.
Luc de Clapiers

The 06/11/13 Joy Jar

11 Jun

 

Moi went to a NASA exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle which looked at the history and importance of the space station and space exploration. A major reason some support space exploration is that they want to plant humans as a species all over the universe. That got moi thinking about whether there is something unique about being human. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the quality of being human.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
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The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simple because the person living it had been doing so for a long time. Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.”
Rachel Joyce,
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”
David Benioff, City of Thieves

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am not a human being; I am a human becoming.

Unknown

The 06/10/13 Joy Jar

10 Jun

 

Moi had the great honor and the pleasure to preview the NASA exhibit, Destination: Station at Pacific Science Center in Seattle. The exhibit is totally awesome and does a good job of explaining the role of the Space Station in exploration. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is space exploration.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there’s no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.”
Carl Sagan,
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.”
J.D. Bernal, The world, the flesh & the devil;: An enquiry into the future of the three enemies of the rational soul

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn’t been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do—to the benefit of us all.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Reaching For the Stars: America’s Choice,
Natural History Magazine, April 2003

I have no doubt that Christians can support the exploration and use of space. The so-called “science commission” in Genesis 1:28 certainly seems to apply to any part of the material creation which God places within man’s reach.

Rev. Paul A. Bartz, Communications Director, Bible-Science Newsletter, October 1990

The 06/09/13 Joy Jar

9 Jun

 

Moi will be going to the ’30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ exhibit at Seattle Art Museum at the end of the month. To beef up her fashion chops moi went to the movie, ‘Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorfs’ which was a hoot and really showed the creativity of high fashion and those famous windows at Bergdorfs. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the creativity of high fashion.

“I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.”

Alexander McQueen

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.”

Diana Vreeland

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

Yves Saint-Laurent

“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.”

Gianni Versace

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

Coco Chanel

“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.”

Audrey Hepburn

“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”

Yves Saint Laurent

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Oscar Wilde

The 06/08/13 Joy Jar

8 Jun

One of moi’s favorite drinks is sparking water with lemon or lime. That got moi thinking about the refreshing and renewing power of water. Today’s dposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the refreshment and renewal of water.

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Andrew Schneider

 

Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

 

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Napolean Hill

 

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Oprah Winfrey

 

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

Taoist Proverb

 

The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

 

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Kate Chopin

 

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

 

What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Ovid

 

Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The 06/07/13 Joy Jar

7 Jun

To have a passion or an idea that one wants to pursue is a gift. Moi is one of those crazies trying to develop a brand, ‘drwilda.com.’ Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the spirit of the Entrepreneur.

 

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

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“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
– Vince Lombardi

 “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs

 “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.”
Richard Branson

“Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”
Oprah Winfrey

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
Bill Gates

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
– Warren Buffett

“One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
– Jeff Bezos

 “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

 “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein

 “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
– Donald Trump

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
Thomas Edison

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
– Vince Lombardi

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill

 “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby

“Success is not what you have, but who you are.”
– Bo Bennet

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

– Mark Twain

 

The 06/06/13 Joy Jar

6 Jun

 

One thing that one notices when the sun comes out in Seattle is that there are more people with smiles. Of course, a smile is good rain or shine, but there are definitely more smiles during sunny days. A smile can bring a sunny day to a face that telegraphs they are in the midst of a gray day. Smiles are free. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are smiles.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving

Most smiles are started by another smile.
Frank A. Clark

A smile confuses an approaching frown.

Unknown

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

Lee Mildon

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

The 06/05/13 Joy Jar

4 Jun

 

Moi must be one of the last people on the planet to have tried Greek yogurt. She has been eating it the past couple of days and it is absolutely wonderful. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is Greek yogurt with fruit on the bottom.

I’m still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there’s half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
Alan Rickman

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

John Mortimer

I opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, Please try again. because they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I opened the yogurt wrong. …Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me… Come on Mitchell, don’t give up! An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top.

Mitch Hedberg

“How could this not have any fat? It’s too good!”
– George, in “The Non-Fat Yogurt”

I’ve got more important things to think about. I’ve got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.
Gordon Strachan

The 06/04/13 Joy Jar

4 Jun

Life doesn’t come with instructions, one must live it as it happens. One must play the hand they are dealt and then take those cards and create your own Royal Flush.  Just because it has always appeared to be doesn’t mean it always has to be. Moi is finding her own groove and liking it. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is finding your own groove.

 

 

 

 

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

 

 

 

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Laurence Housman

 

 

 

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

David Viscott

 

 

 

 
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!

Marvin Phillips

 

 

 

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!

Henry Ford

 

 

 

 

 

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. –

Alex Karras

 

 

 

 

 

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Donald Fagen

 

 

 

 

 

If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Timothy Leary

 

 

 

 

The 06/03/13 Joy Jar

2 Jun

 

Moi was walking around today and she noticed that there is green grass and there is green grass. Grass comes in shades and in comes in different types. Grass that is well-tended looks happy and grass that has been left to its own devices looks disheveled and lost. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is grass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas Jefferson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I’d like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it’s just as hard to cut.
Little Richard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
Charles Stanley