We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others.”Melody Beattie
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.Melody Beattie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity....Melody Beattie
We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (or even someone unimportant) to you 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.Melody Beattie
Feelings are just feelings. We don't have to negate feelings, justify feelings . . . or let feelings control our behaviors.Melody Beattie
Today, I will trust that I'm where I am supposed to be for now. Instead of running from my circumstances, I will trust that I'm learning what I need to be learning.Melody Beattie
Many of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn't have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to participate.Melody Beattie
The future is our best kept secret.Melody Beattie
We can learn to take responsibility for our own self-care. If we don't take care of ourselves, we'll be unable to take care of someone else.Melody Beattie
We can't control whether other people are being nice. We do have control over the power and energy we place into being upset with, and trying to change, the other person.Melody Beattie