More Quotes by Melody Beattie
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
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.
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
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.
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
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.
Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.
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
