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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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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Perform
Fuel
Literally
Changes
Brain
Someone
Sends
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Chemistry
Encourage

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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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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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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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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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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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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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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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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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Oftentimes, churches are started by an entrepreneurial church plant visionary whom everybody follows, but he's not following anybody. Even though he's accountable to a board, he's really not. Authority's a good thing, and if it's not forced upon you as a leader, then I suggest, strongly, that you go buy some.
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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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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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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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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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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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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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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It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.
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The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
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