Melody Beattie Quotes
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.
If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.
The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.
Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.
other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours
What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.
The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.
Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know -- we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.
We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.
Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.
Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.
Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.
It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.
Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
