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we're responsible for our own lives.
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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
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Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase. Reactive people, on the other hand, focus their efforts in the Circle of Concern. They focus on the weakness of other people, the problems in the environment, and circumstances over which they have no control. The..
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leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
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Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth -- a knowledge of things as they are.
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Albert Einstein observed, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
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Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism -- anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.
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If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
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When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.
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You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness.
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The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act
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If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you an..
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.
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Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.
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If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values--carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
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When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Inside-Out" means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives"
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My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
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When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self.
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As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life.
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Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually
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Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!
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We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other."
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.
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One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all."
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The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
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If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for..
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