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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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People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.
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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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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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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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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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A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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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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You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
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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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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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When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?
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Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
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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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We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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