Melody Beattie Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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.

  Melody Beattie

  Real, Healing, Rejects You

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.68, Hazelden Publishing

• I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Responsibility, Keys

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.11, Hazelden Publishing

• When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Powerful, Simple, Choices

• Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Ideas, Choices

• We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

  Melody Beattie

  Choices, Our Choices, Consequence

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

  Melody Beattie

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Choices

  Melody Beattie (2009). “Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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