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Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

Bill Crawford

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
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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Choices Three World
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
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
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
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
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
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

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Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

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