Melody Beattie Quotes

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Melody Beattie

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 26, 1948

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 this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

Melody Beattie

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

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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 clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

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Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

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Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

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The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

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Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

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Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

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Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

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Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

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What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

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I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think.

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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 a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

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Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.

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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.

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We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

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In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.

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I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.

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