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“I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214”

Melody Beattie

Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Melody Beattie

“… the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.”

Melody Beattie

Source: The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

“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.”

Melody Beattie

Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

“You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”

Melody Beattie

Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“… the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.”

Melody Beattie

Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

“Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.”

Melody Beattie

Source: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact

Melody Beattie Quotes about people

“The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.”

Melody Beattie

Source: Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

“We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167

love always found itself again.”

Melody Beattie

Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.”

Melody Beattie

Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

“other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours”

Melody Beattie

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