Caretaking Quote by Melody Beattie Download Open image “Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.” — Melody Beattie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caretaking Caring Compassion Lines Two Walks
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as… — Mary Catherine Bateson 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 of all,… — Melody Beattie 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. “I could… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“Once they have been affected---once "it" sets in---codependency takes on a life of its own. It is similar to catching pneumonia or picking up… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to be so afraid of people. They are just people like us.” — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“I want to thank each person who has the courage to push through and past the set of coping behaviors we’ve come to label… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, deep week… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth,… — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
We're vulnerable to repeating history, especially if we don't know what's driving us. For example, it may be a family tradition to marry someone… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a dark, intimate… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value… — Naomi Klein 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 whom, when,… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
