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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Potential
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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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The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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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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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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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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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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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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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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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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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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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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If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
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That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the who you are as much as the what of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
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There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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