If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
HENRY CLOUDA good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word ‘no.’ Love respects ‘no,’ control does not.
More Henry Cloud Quotes
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If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you ‘do’ boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.
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If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
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To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.
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People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari – like they’re trying to land the trophy.
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The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.
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A person who hasn’t grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
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Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.
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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
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Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
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Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.
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The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.
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