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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.

Bill Crawford

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
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
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
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
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 spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
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

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