Henry Cloud Quotes

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• A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

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  Doe, Tests, Love Respect

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• We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Dec 22, 2016

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• 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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  Writing, Long, Stories

  Twitter post from Aug 3, 2013

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• 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, Fuel, Able

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• Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

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  Moving, People, Leaving

  Henry Cloud (2011). “Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

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  Hurt, Responsibility, Loss

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Mar 03, 2016

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• The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

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  Trying, Doe, Fool

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• You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.

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  Attempting, Grows

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• There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

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  Differences, Solitude, Isolation

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2015

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• The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

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  Mature Person, Immature, Demand

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• Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

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  Essentials, Boundaries, Building

  Source: tonymorganlive.com

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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.

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  Two, Leader, Ends

  Henry Cloud (2013). “Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• When we ask we are owning our needs. Asking for love, comfort or understanding is a transaction between two people. You are saying: I have a need. It's not your problem. It's not your responsibility. You don't have to respond, but I'd like something from you.
  This frees the other person to connect with you freely and without obligation. When we own that our needs are our responsibility we allow others to love us because we have something to offer. Asking is a far cry from demanding. When we demand love, we destroy it.

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  Responsibility, Two, People

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• 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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  Heart, Care, Connected

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• 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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  Love, Perception, Age

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.24, Zondervan

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• To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

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  People, Behavior, Natural

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2008). “Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.39, Zondervan

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• 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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  Moving, Pruning, Alive

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• Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

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  Pain, Giving, Consequence

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.57, Harper Collins

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• We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

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  Success, Mistake, People

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• 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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  Children, Fall, Character

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• The 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!

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  Trying, Christ, Our Lives

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• Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

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  Taken, People, Giving

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• The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we do in our hearts; we release someone from a debt that they owe us. We write off the person’s debt, and she no longer owes us. We no longer condemn her. She is clean. Only one party is needed for forgiveness: me. The person who owes me a debt does not have to ask my forgiveness. It is a work of grace in my heart.

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  Party, Writing, Heart

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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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  People, Community, Healthy

  "The secret to making New Year's resolutions stick" by Henry Cloud, www.foxnews.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.

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  Responsibility, Freedom And Responsibility

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.26, Zondervan

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