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We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

Bill Crawford

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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
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
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
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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Care Giving Quality
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
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
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
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
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

We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

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We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

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