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You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.

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
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
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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Adults Children Taken
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
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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Meaningful Skills 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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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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