Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
BILL CRAWFORDPeople have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
More Bill Crawford Quotes
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A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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