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God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.
— Melody Beattie
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.
— Melody Beattie
Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.
— Melody Beattie
Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.
— Melody Beattie
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
Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.
— Melody Beattie
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
— Melody Beattie
Others do not have our magic. We have our magic. It is in us.
— Melody Beattie
Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.
— Melody Beattie
God, help me let go of my need to deprive myself of being alive.
— Melody Beattie
Sometimes, we don't get what we want ... But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
— Melody Beattie
Codependents appear to be depended upon, but they are dependent.
— Melody Beattie
Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.
— Melody Beattie
Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.
— Melody Beattie
Everything comes at its appointed moment. - Joseph R. Sizoo
— Melody Beattie
Start today to follow your heart.
Map out your own journey.
Have the adventure of a lifetime. — Melody Beattie
Map out your own journey.
Have the adventure of a lifetime. — Melody Beattie
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
— Melody Beattie
We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.
— Melody Beattie
The formula is simple: In any given situation, detach and ask, What do I need to do to take care of myself?
— Melody Beattie
Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.
— Melody Beattie
Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.
— Melody Beattie
Perspective will come in retrospect.
— Melody Beattie
Today, I will wait if the way is not clear. I will trust that out of the chaos will come clarity.
— Melody Beattie
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
— Melody Beattie
Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'
— Melody Beattie
We work it out, or live it out.
— Melody Beattie
When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
— Melody Beattie
Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment
— Melody Beattie
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
— Melody Beattie
Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.
— Melody Beattie
Who you are is love. What love does is heal.
— Melody Beattie
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.
— Melody Beattie
Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.
— Melody Beattie
Set boundaries even when you're scared, and when it doesn't feel comfortable to do. Eventually setting boundaries will happen naturally for you,
— Melody Beattie
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
— Melody Beattie
Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.
— Melody Beattie
If you have done nothing to feel embarrassed about, don't feel embarrassed. I know this is a tough concept, but it can be mastered.
— Melody Beattie
The only person you can now or ever change is yourself. The only person that it is your business to control is yourself.
— Melody Beattie
Detaching does not mean we don't care. It means we learn to love, care, and be involved without going crazy.
— Melody Beattie
As I've said before, no wonder we think God has abandoned us; we've abandoned ourselves.
— Melody Beattie
Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
— Melody Beattie
The plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.
— Melody Beattie
There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.
— Melody Beattie
Each life needs its own quiet place.
— Melody Beattie
Today, I will trust that God will do for me what I cannot do for myself. I will do my part - working the Twelve Steps and letting God do the rest.
— Melody Beattie
Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.
— Melody Beattie
Self-care isn't selfish; it's self-esteem.
— Melody Beattie
Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.
— Melody Beattie
Other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours
— Melody Beattie
Control is an illusion ...
— Melody Beattie
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
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
— Melody Beattie
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.
— Melody Beattie
I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.
— Melody Beattie
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.
— Melody Beattie
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
— Melody Beattie
We've realized that women have souls, and men have feelings.
— Melody Beattie
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.
— Melody Beattie
When you let go of fear and the need to control, you'll experience how mysterious, sacred, and interesting Life can be.
— Melody Beattie
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
— Melody Beattie
I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know
we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it. — Melody Beattie
we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it. — Melody Beattie
Today, I will not wait for others to see and care; I will take responsibility for being aware of my pain and problems, and caring about myself.
— Melody Beattie
Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
— Melody Beattie
If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.
— Melody Beattie
Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart.
— Melody Beattie
We have as much time as we need.
— Melody Beattie
It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.
— Melody Beattie
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
Quit hanging on to the handrails ... Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
— Melody Beattie
Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are.
— Melody Beattie
If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.
— Melody Beattie
Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.
— Melody Beattie
Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable ...
— Melody Beattie
Today, everything I need shall be supplied to me.
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Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.
— Melody Beattie
The only limitations on you are the ones you've placed on yourself.
— Melody Beattie
I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
— Melody Beattie
Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.
— Melody Beattie
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
— Melody Beattie
Panic is our great enemy.
— Melody Beattie
When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.
— Melody Beattie
Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.
— Melody Beattie
Taking time to rest, renew, and refresh yourself isn't wasted time. Recharge. Choose what energizes you.
— Melody Beattie
What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.
— Melody Beattie
No - simple to pronounce, hard to say.
— Melody Beattie
Beliefs create reality
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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
— Melody Beattie