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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
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Vicksburg
Mississippi
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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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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
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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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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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The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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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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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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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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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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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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It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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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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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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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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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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