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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.

Bill Crawford

Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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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Creating Meaningful Past
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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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Choose Feels Ironically
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
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
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind

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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