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In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Henry Cloud

Dating is primarily a numbers game. People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That’s just the way it is.
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Date People Relationship Way
I’m not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.
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Anand Thakur
When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform, sends fuel to the brain.
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Brain Change Encourage Performance Yourself
Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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Morals Reality Religious
For someone’s character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.
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Character Children Criticism Freedom Growth Life Stop
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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Change Decision Marriage Responsibility
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
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Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
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We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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Brain Follow Leadership People Result Well
The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Adjust Fools Himself Truth
You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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Date People Place Practice
A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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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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Business Grief Person Result
The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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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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Angry Control Fact Frustration Ourselves Reality
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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Connection Finding Heart Human Known Seek Willing
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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Demand Life Mature Person
Being right can never compete with doing well.
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Complete Right
Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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Issues Person Problem Relationship Soft
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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Date Discover Finding Yourself
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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Children Fear Leave Pride Reaction Yourself
Whatever’s happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don’t treat it like it’s the whole story. Keep writing the story.
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Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
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Endurance Goodness Growth Pain Resistance
Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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Break Up Date Value Worth

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