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We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

Bill Crawford

You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
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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Care Caring Selfish
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
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 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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

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