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Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
Author
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
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Inspirational
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Person
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Heart
Love
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Free

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Arranging for and allowing ourselves to have fun is an important part of taking care of ourselves. It helps us stay healthy. It helps us work better. It balances life. We deserve to have fun. Fun is a normal part of being alive. Fun is taking time to celebrate being alive.
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Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
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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.
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The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.
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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
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Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
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Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.
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Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.
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Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
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Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.
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Writing forces consciousness.
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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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Beliefs create reality
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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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Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment
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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.
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Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.
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Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.
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Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved.
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Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
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