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Melody Beattie Quotes On How To Start Caring For Yourself

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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“Worrying and obsessing keep us so tangled on our heads we can’t solve our problems. Whenever we become attached in these ways to someone or something, we become detached from ourselves.”- Melody Beattie

“We don’t have to take other people’s behaviors as reflections of our self-worth.”– Melody Beattie

“We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth.“- Melody Beattie

“We don’t have to take things so personally. We take things to heart that we no business taking to heart.”- Melody Beattie

“We don’t have to take little things personally either…. Usually things have far less to do with us than we think.”– Melody Beattie

“If people don’t want to be with us or act healthy, it is not a reflection on our self-worth. It reflects on their present circumstances.”- Melody Beattie

“Stop looking for happiness in other people. Our source of happiness and well-being is not inside others; it’s inside us. Learn to center ourselves in ourselves.”- Melody Beattie

“We can learn to depend on ourselves. Maybe other people haven’t been there for us, but we can start being their for us.”- Melody Beattie

“Real power comes from feeling our feelings, not from ignoring them. Real strength comes, not from pretending to be strong all the time, but from acknowledging our weaknesses and vulnerabilities…”- Melody Beattie

“Go as far as you can see, and by the time you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.”- Melody Beattie

“Self-care is an attitude of mutual respect. It means learning to live our lives responsibly. It means allowing others to live their lives as they choose, as long as they don’t interfere with our decisions to live as we choose.”- Melody Beattie

“Giving ourselves what we need does not not only mean giving presents to ourselves; it means doing what is necessary to live responsibly- not an excessively responsible or an irresponsible existence.”- Melody Beattie

“Love cannot exist without the dimension of justice. Love must also have compassion which means to bear with or to suffer with a person.”- Melody Beattie

“There is nothing in the world like going where we want to go, getting what we want, solving a problem, or doing something we always wanted to do.”- Melody Beattie

“Goals cure boredom.”- Melody Beattie

If You Want To Set Yourself Free, Read These Quotes By John C. Parkin

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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“Freedom from attachments takes you a good way down the road to total liberation.”- John C. Parkin

“When meaning goes, the attachment goes.”- John C. Parkin

“If you can find the source of pleasure inside yourself, you’ll be self-sufficient and you’ll become a very cheap date, too. But the biggest boon is that if you can find pleasure in the very thing that can boost your own health and lead to a long, happiness and positive enlightenment, then you’re a damn sight more likely to do that thing on a regular basis.”- John C. Parkin

“The key to being able to let go of all the stuff you’re holding on to is knowing that you’ll be okay if you don’t have it.”– John C. Parkin

“Accepting everything, just as it is, is a beautiful state to get to. …Accept the things that don’t go according to plan, the people that don’t treat you quite how you’d like to be treated, the bad news as well as the good.”- John C. Parkin

“The problem for most of us is that we live somewhere in between a good yanging and a good yinning life. So we don’t go for things enough, we don’t embrace life as vigorously as we could. And we don’t relax and let go enough.”- John C. Parkin

“A relationship is about us… and the most intimate way we deal with the outside world.”- John C. Parkin

“When you fall in love, other things matter less.”- John C. Parkin

“In love we want a lot. We want all the attention. We want it to last forever. We want it to be perfect. And we throw everything we have into these desires.”– John C. Parkin

“If what you have to offer is worth enough to other people, then they’ll give you lots of things in return.”- John C. Parkin

“You are simply in a constant process of exchange for value with the world. The more the world values what you do and what you are giving, the more it will give back.”- John C. Parkin

“Enjoy the process of exchange: whether big or small. If you’re happy to be humble and self-contained, enjoy the small things that the world brings you for the things that you offer.”- John C. Parkin