Melody Beattie Quotes

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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

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Arranging for and allowing ourselves to have fun is an important part of taking care of ourselves. It helps us stay healthy. It helps us work better. It balances life. We deserve to have fun. Fun is a normal part of being alive. Fun is taking time to celebrate being alive.

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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.

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Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.

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When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

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Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

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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.

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We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths.

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Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable...

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Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

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Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

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Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

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Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

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Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

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Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.

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Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

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God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

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Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out — in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

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Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is.

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The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

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Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.

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We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

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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.

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Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

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You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

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This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.

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There are almost as many definitions of codependency as there are experiences that represent it.... my definition of a codependent: 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.

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