Melody Beattie
Panic is our great enemy.Collection: Enemy
We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.Collection: Awareness
There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.Collection: Honor
Writing forces consciousness.Collection: Writing
We have as much time as we need.Collection: Time
God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others.Collection: Letting Go
You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Pain
Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline.Collection: Art
Beliefs create realityCollection: Inspirational
...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.Collection: Meditation
God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.Collection: Helping
Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.Collection: People
When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.Collection: Heart
...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.Collection: Change
We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we get a big screen. They start a business and we start planning our articles of incorporation and the first stock release. And while we're so busy keeping up, we ignore our soul, the inner voice, that's telling us that it really wants to teach children to read. While it helps to identify with each other, we're not the same. So why compare ourselves on the basis of material things? Are you walking a path with heart in your own life, regardless of what others have?Collection: Children
A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105Collection: Men
Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.Collection: Relationship
What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.Collection: Caring
Panic, not the task, is the enemy.Collection: Enemy
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.Collection: Thinking
Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87Collection: Pain
When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.Collection: Swimming
When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.Collection: Needs
We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset when things don't work out. . . . When we try to control someone else or events beyond the scope of our power, we lose. When we learn to discern the difference between what we can change and what we can't, we usually have an easier time expressing our power in our lives. Because we're not wasting all our energy using our power to change things we can't, we have a lot of energy left over to live our lives.Collection: Control Someone
Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.Collection: Powerful
Control is an illusion.Collection: Illusion
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.Collection: Compassion
It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.Collection: Inspirational
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.Collection: Guilt
I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.Collection: Hurt
Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.Collection: Peace
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.Collection: People
Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and how much. It takes time to learn how to give in healthy ways. It takes time to learn to receive. Balance will come.Collection: Practice
Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.Collection: Healing
Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.Collection: Real
Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.Collection: Letting Go
Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.Collection: Thinking
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214Collection: Simple
Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.Collection: Needs
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.Collection: Solitude
Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.Collection: Gratitude
He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19 I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19Collection: Children
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.Collection: Helping Others
This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.Collection: Peace
Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.Collection: Gratitude
Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved.Collection: Hurt
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.Collection: Strong
Each life needs its own quiet place.Collection: Needs