"It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day."

-- Robert Spector

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“Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.”

Source : Zane (2012). “The Zane Collection #3: Afterburn, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and The Hot Box”, p.495, Simon and Schuster
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
“What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.”

Source : Letter to Theo, from The Hague, July 21, 1882.
“For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.”
“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”
“A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.”

Source : Jeff Cox (1993). “Creating a Garden for the Senses”
“In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.”
“I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.”

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