The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.
HENRY CLOUDBe Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
More Henry Cloud Quotes
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.
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A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word ‘no.’ Love respects ‘no,’ control does not.
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Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as “Taking,” you are not getting it.
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Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
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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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Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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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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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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
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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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To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.
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The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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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To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
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The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.
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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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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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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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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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We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.
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The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
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