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Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.
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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...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.
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What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.
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Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
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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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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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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
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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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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 have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.
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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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Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.
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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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