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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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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.
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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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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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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
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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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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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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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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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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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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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People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.
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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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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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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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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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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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