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Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

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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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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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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Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
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Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
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...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.
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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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When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.
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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
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Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
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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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It's easy to see and notice what we like in other people. Sometimes, it's not as easy to see the attributes and beauty in ourselves. It's good to see the beauty in others. But sometimes, take a moment and get excited when you notice what's beautiful in yourself, too.
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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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Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
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Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.
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Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.
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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
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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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Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.
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