Melody Beattie Quotes

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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…
• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
• Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
• 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 hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in…
• According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of…
• I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for…
• Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that's just for me and I won't worry…
• Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
• Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
• If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.
• Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for…
• We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.
• Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
• Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.
• 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.
• Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain…
• God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His…
• Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
• Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You…

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