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It is true that you get what you tolerate.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Tolerate
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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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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Encourage literally came from in courage. The courage is put into you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
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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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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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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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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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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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 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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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 a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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