If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave. — Melody Beattie Ifs Copy Share Image
We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet. — Melody Beattie Emotional Copy Share Image
When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves. — Melody Beattie Asks Copy Share Image
We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated. — Melody Beattie Being Copy Share Image
We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates. — Melody Beattie Choice Copy Share Image
Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two. — Melody Beattie Caretaking Copy Share Image
Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself. — Melody Beattie Focus Copy Share Image
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart. — Melody Beattie Heart Copy Share Image
Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. — Melody Beattie Anger Copy Share Image
Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe. — Melody Beattie Time Copy Share Image
We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be… — Melody Beattie Blame Copy Share Image
Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other… — Melody Beattie Enjoy Copy Share Image
Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.' — Melody Beattie Anything Copy Share Image
According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in… — Melody Beattie Belts Copy Share Image
There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it. — Melody Beattie Almost Copy Share Image
Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay. — Melody Beattie Codependent Copy Share Image
Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like… — Melody Beattie Approval Copy Share Image
Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes… — Melody Beattie Broken Copy Share Image
Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out… — Melody Beattie Affair Copy Share Image
There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of… — Melody Beattie Change the world Copy Share Image
...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment… — Melody Beattie Affirm Copy Share Image
Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push… — Melody Beattie Body Copy Share Image
I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her… — Melody Beattie Alzheimer Copy Share Image
Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts… — Melody Beattie Always moving Copy Share Image
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way… — Melody Beattie And love Copy Share Image
Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what… — Melody Beattie Becoming Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, a woman moved to a cave in the mountains to study with a guru. She wanted, she said,… — Melody Beattie Enlightenment Copy Share Image
I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere… — Melody Beattie Boundaries Copy Share Image
“Ever since people first existed, they have been doing all the things we label "codependent." They have worried themselves sick about other… — Melody Beattie Codependency Copy Share Image
Speak your truth. Listen when others speak theirs, too. When you let go of fear, you will learn to love others, and… — Melody Beattie Ask yourself Copy Share Image
We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new… — Melody Beattie Articles Copy Share Image
Are you balanced? Do you share your time, your energy, your life, as much with yourself as you do with those around… — Melody Beattie Able Copy Share Image