We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we’re going to need the next day.
HENRY CLOUDThe fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
More Henry Cloud Quotes
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Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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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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Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
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Things don’t change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.
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You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
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You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.
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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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.
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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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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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