Melody Beattie citations

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”