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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Bill Crawford

Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
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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Heart Land Successful

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