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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.


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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.



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.

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.



It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.



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

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



Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.



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.

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.



Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.



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.

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.



Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.



The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.





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My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.



Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

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This page presents the quote "Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.". Author of this quote is Melody Beattie. This quote is about positive, striving for perfection, excellence, quality, perfection, self,.