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It is true that you get what you tolerate.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
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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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A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
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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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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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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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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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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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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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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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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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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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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.
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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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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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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 fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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