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One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.

Bill Crawford

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
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
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
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
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
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
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
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 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 successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.

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