Quotes from Bill Crawford

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?

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.

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.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

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.

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

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.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

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?

One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.