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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
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Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Float
Floats
Swimming
Difficult
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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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Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.
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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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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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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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Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
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Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.
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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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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
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Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.
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When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
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Panic is our great enemy.
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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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Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
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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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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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