“To be happy we need someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to. I” — Melody Beattie Happiness Copy Share Image
Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be… — Melody Beattie Attitude Copy Share Image
Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until… — Melody Beattie Again and again Copy Share Image
Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give. — Melody Beattie Crazier Copy Share Image
Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk. — Melody Beattie Demand Copy Share Image
“Taking time to rest, renew, and refresh yourself isn’t wasted time. Recharge. Choose what energizes you.” — Melody Beattie Recharge Copy Share Image
Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world. — Melody Beattie Caring Copy Share Image
“We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still… — Melody Beattie Codependency Copy Share Image
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way… — Melody Beattie Angry Copy Share Image
Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way.… — Melody Beattie Accept Copy Share Image
Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps… — Melody Beattie Affirmation Copy Share Image
He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a… — Melody Beattie Children Copy Share Image
God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt… — Melody Beattie Deny Copy Share Image
You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and… — Melody Beattie Balance Copy Share Image
Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to… — Melody Beattie Balance Copy Share Image
Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to… — Melody Beattie Balance Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I’ve worked with in family groups have been that obsessed with people they care about. When I asked… — Melody Beattie Family Copy Share Image
“Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps… — Melody Beattie Affirmation Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (or even someone unimportant) to… — Melody Beattie Important person Copy Share Image
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to… — Melody Beattie Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Frequently, when I suggest to people that they detach from a person or problem, they recoil in horror. “Oh, no!” they say.… — Melody Beattie Better way Copy Share Image
When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God. — Melody Beattie Broken Copy Share Image
The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane… — Melody Beattie Affair Copy Share Image
“they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.” — Melody Beattie Hostility Copy Share Image
If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you… — Melody Beattie Bits Copy Share Image
What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when… — Melody Beattie Around Copy Share Image
Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most… — Melody Beattie Be kind Copy Share Image
Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable... — Melody Beattie Courage Copy Share Image
When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to… — Melody Beattie Choice Copy Share Image
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that… — Melody Beattie Behavior Copy Share Image
“Maybe we don’t need to go deeper into our codependency. We can, instead, march forward into our destinies.” — Melody Beattie Forward Copy Share Image
Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day. — Melody Beattie Every day Copy Share Image
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right. — Melody Beattie Easy Copy Share Image
“The test, the mark, of a person that's on a spiritual path is whether they can live in harmony.” — Melody Beattie Harmony Copy Share Image
We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about… — Melody Beattie Awareness Copy Share Image
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt. — Melody Beattie Downtime Copy Share Image
“Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives God and the Universe permission to send us… — Melody Beattie Faith Copy Share Image
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story… — Melody Beattie Book Copy Share Image
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie Dreams Copy Share Image
“Codependents: don’t trust themselves. don’t trust their feelings. don’t trust their decisions. don’t trust other people. try to trust untrustworthy people.” — Melody Beattie Trust Copy Share Image
