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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
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Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
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Heart
Love
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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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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
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We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.
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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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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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Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
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Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
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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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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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Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
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...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.
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Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.
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Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
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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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God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His presence doesn't deny me. It's always there to help me see and understand what I came to this planet to learn.
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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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The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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