Feelings Quote by Melody Beattie

“Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.”

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“Frequently, when I suggest to people that they detach from a person or problem, they recoil in horror. “Oh, no!” they say. “I could never do that. I love him, or her, too much. I care too much to do that. This problem or person is too important to me. I have to stay attached!” My answer to that is,…

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...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

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Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

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“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 a destructive habit. Once you've got it, you've got it. If you want to get rid of it, YOU have to do something to make it go away. It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Your…

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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…

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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.

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“We don’t have to be so afraid of people. They are just people like us.”

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

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“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 as codependency—who learn what it means to take care of themselves. “Nobody taught me how to take care of myself,” a fifty-year-old woman told me recently. “I didn’t have enough money to go to therapy, but…

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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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Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

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We never realize the importance of any our action until we be the hunt of same situation in reaction.

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When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

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Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances. You and I possess the power to change our thoughts. It is our greatest power - the power to choose. If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax. Look at…

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It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and…

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“I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through…

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If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract…

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