Melody Beattie Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Kindness, Giving Up

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.16, Hazelden Publishing

• 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.

  Melody Beattie

  Practice, Giving, Understanding

• 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.

  Melody Beattie

  Healing, Health, Giving

• Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

  Melody Beattie

  Love, Appreciation, Healing

• Are you balanced? Do you share your time, your energy, your life, as much with yourself as you do with those around you?. . . . Know your limits. You are one of the most important people you need to look after and love. Balance your time, your energy, your life with those around you. You'll be able to give more freely and joyfully as a result, and you'll be more open to the gifts of the universe. It's not wrong to give to others. But it's okay to say yes to ourselves, too.

  Melody Beattie

  People, Giving, Balance

• Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

  Melody Beattie

  Powerful, Play, Goal

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

• Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

  Melody Beattie

  Caring, Giving, Focus

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

• We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful

• Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.

  Melody Beattie

  Couple, Fun, Team

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Melody Beattie

  Control Someone, Differences, Giving

• It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

  Melody Beattie

  Giving Up, Growing Up, Crazy

  "Treating Codependence: Q&A With Author Melody Beattie". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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