Bill Crawford Quotes
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You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.
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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.
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To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
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Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.
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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
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Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
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There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.
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Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.
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Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.
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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?