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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Disintegrated
Authority
Become
Character
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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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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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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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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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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships
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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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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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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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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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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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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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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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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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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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