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Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
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St Paul
Minnesota
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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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Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
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I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
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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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Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
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Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and how much. It takes time to learn how to give in healthy ways. It takes time to learn to receive. Balance will come.
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Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.
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Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.
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Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.
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Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.
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The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
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Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other.
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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
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Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.
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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 cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.
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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
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Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.
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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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