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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
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Vicksburg
Mississippi
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The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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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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Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
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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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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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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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In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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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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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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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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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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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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Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes.
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.
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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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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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