Melody Beattie Short Quotes

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Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.

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

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Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

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When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

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We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

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The pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

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If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

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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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Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.

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It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.

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We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.

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

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

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

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Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

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If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

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

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What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.

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When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.

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Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

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

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Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

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Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

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Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.

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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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Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

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Few situations — no matter how greatly they appear to demand it — can be bettered by us going beserk.

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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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