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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.

Bill Crawford

When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk 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
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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 problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
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
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
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
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation

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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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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