"Once you perceive, you pursue. Once you pursue, you receive."

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Larry Stockstill

#Perceive Quotes #Pursue Quotes

“A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.”
“Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.”
“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.”

Source : Speech, West Calder, Scotland, November 27, 1879.
“Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.”
“In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.”
“Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.”
“It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve â€” the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.”

Source : "Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century". Book by Richard Weston, 2004.
“Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.”

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