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Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

Bill Crawford

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
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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Important Resentment Revenge
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
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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Differences Key Past
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
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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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

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