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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
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Issues
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.
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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 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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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.
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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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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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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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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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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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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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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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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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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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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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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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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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