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More Quotes by Melody Beattie
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.
Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.
Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
Love yourself just as you are.
Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.
I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know -- we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.
