Melody Beattie Quotes

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.

Beliefs create reality

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

Start today to follow your heart. Map out your own journey. Have the adventure of a lifetime.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

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.

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.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.

Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.

No - simple to pronounce, hard to say.

Who you are is love. What love does is heal.

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

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.

We have as much time as we need.

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.

Writing forces consciousness.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.

Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

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.

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

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

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

We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.

We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths.

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

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

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

You don't blast a heart open, " she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.