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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
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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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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 fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.
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Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
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We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we're going to need the next day.
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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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If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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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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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The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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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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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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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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