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If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
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St Paul
Minnesota
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All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the nature of the journey. It continues to unfold. It builds on itself. It can't help itself from doing that. Cherish the moments, all of them. You have seen and felt much in life so far. But still, the best is yet to come.
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Love yourself just as you are.
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Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
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We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.
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Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
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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.
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Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world
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You don't blast a heart open, she said. You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
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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.
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Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
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Writing forces consciousness.
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Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
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Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.
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Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.
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Control is an illusion.
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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
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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
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