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1. "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." ~ Melody Beattie
2. "Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87" ~ Melody Beattie
3. "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 167love always found itself again." ~ Melody Beattie
4. "The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it." ~ Melody Beattie
5. "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
6. "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." ~ Melody Beattie
7. "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattie
8. "Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls." ~ Melody Beattie
9. "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
10. "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." ~ Melody Beattie
11. "Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors." ~ Melody Beattie
12. "I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214" ~ Melody Beattie
13. "...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound." ~ Melody Beattie
14. "A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105" ~ Melody Beattie
15. "I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too." ~ Melody Beattie
16. "Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We'll set a limit when we're ready, and not a moment before. So will others. There's something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we're controlling others, but because we've changed." ~ Melody Beattie
17. "The test, the mark, of a person that's on a spiritual path is whether they can live in harmony." ~ Melody Beattie
18. "Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves." ~ Melody Beattie
19. "Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34." ~ Melody Beattie
20. "You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose." ~ Melody Beattie
21. "Beliefs create reality" ~ Melody Beattie
22. "I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life." ~ Melody Beattie
23. "He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19" ~ Melody Beattie
24. "Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't." ~ Melody Beattie
25. "We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet." ~ Melody Beattie
26. "Ever since people first existed, they have been doing all the things we label "codependent." They have worried themselves sick about other people. They have tried to help in ways that didn't help. They have said yes when they meant no. They have tried to make other people see things their way. They have bent over backwards avoiding hurting people's feelings and, in so doing, have hurt themselves. They have been afraid to trust their feelings. They have believed lies and then felt betrayed. They have wanted to get even and punish others. They have felt so angry they wanted to kill. They have struggled for their rights while other people said they didn't have any. They have worn sackcloth because they didn't believe they deserved silk." ~ Melody Beattie

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