The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
HENRY CLOUDThe mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
HENRY CLOUDDiligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it.
HENRY CLOUDPeople tend to look at dating sort of like a safari – like they’re trying to land the trophy.
HENRY CLOUDThe amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
HENRY CLOUDIn a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school.
HENRY CLOUDThe 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.
HENRY CLOUDGood pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
HENRY CLOUDIf 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.
HENRY CLOUDDating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
HENRY CLOUDDont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
HENRY CLOUDA culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
HENRY CLOUDYou aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
HENRY CLOUDIf people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
HENRY CLOUDValues are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
HENRY CLOUDThe sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!
HENRY CLOUDAnger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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