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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!

Bill Crawford

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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
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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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree

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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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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