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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Operating
Exist
Responsibility
Freedom
Love

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Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.
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Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
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That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the who you are as much as the what of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
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Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.
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There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
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Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.
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When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
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If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.
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The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!
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