black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

Bill Crawford

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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Determination Long Self
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
BILL CRAWFORD

Healing Path Want
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
BILL CRAWFORD

Anxiety Stress Stuck
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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Perspective Running Tree
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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Children Eye Heart
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
BILL CRAWFORD

Energy Shame Spurs Worry
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
BILL CRAWFORD

Affected Define Term
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
BILL CRAWFORD

Mind Problem Ties
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
BILL CRAWFORD

Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
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.
BILL CRAWFORD

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

Hate Important Two
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
BILL CRAWFORD

Energy Giving Impact
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
BILL CRAWFORD

Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
BILL CRAWFORD

Optimism Realistic Worst
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
BILL CRAWFORD

Mistake Perception Reality
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
BILL CRAWFORD

Adults Children Taken

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Crawford Quotes