List of Melody Beattie Quotes

We Call It Keeping Up With The Joneses. They Buy A Boat And We Buy A Bigger One. They Get A New Tv And We Get A Big Screen. They Start A Business And We Start Planning Our Articles Of Incorporation And The First Stock Release. And While We're So Busy Keeping Up, We Ignore Our Soul, The Inner Voice, That's Telling Us That It Really Wants To Teach Children To Read. While It Helps To Identify With Each Other, We're Not The Same. So Why Compare Ourselves On The Basis Of Material Things? Are You Walking A Path With Heart In Your Own Life, Regardless Of What Others Have?

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 19 I Decide Loving Isn't For The Fain. Its For The Courageous. P 19

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

Few Situations - No Matter How Greatly They Appear To Demand It - Can Be Bettered By Us Going Beserk.

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.

...help Me Let Go Of My Need To Stay Immersed In Negativity. I Can Change The Energy In Myself And My Environment From Nega­tive To Positive. I Will Affirm The Good Until It Sinks In And Feels Real. I Will Also Strive To Find One Quality That I Like About Someone Else Who's Important To Me, And I Will Take The Risk Of Telling Him Or Her That.

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.

When You Wonder What Is Coming, Tell Yourself The Best Is Coming, The Very Best Life And Love Have To Offer, The Best God And His Universe Have To Send. Then Open Your Hands To Receive It. It's Yours.

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.

Today I Will Surrender To Discipline. I Realize That Sometimes It Takes Time To See The Fruits Of My Labors, Yet I Still Need To Practice Discipline. Help Me To Remember, God, That I'm Moving Forward, And That I'm Learning The Very Important Art Of Discipline.

...the Plan Will Happen In Spite Of Us, Not Because Of Us.