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More Quotes by Melody Beattie
Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
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.
Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.
Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.
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.
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
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.
