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Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

Henry Cloud

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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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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Break Up Date Value Worth
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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Control Freedom Love Marriage Partner Relationship Slave
Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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Existence Freedom Love Operation Responsibility
In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
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The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
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Fulfill Power Reality Relationship Virtual
A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
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Consequence Natural People Power Rescue
Encourage literally came from “in courage.” The courage is put “into” you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
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Character Courage Encouragement Growth Ourselves Possession
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
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Greatness Metaphor Passion Recognition Season Time
The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
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Amount Love Present Relationship Truth
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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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.
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Better Creation Day Feeling Need
Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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Date People Place Practice
Being right can never compete with doing well.
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