Melody Beattie Quotes

I came to love, I came into my own.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

I don't want to spend my time thinking about somebody else, I want to spend my time just being me and embracing life and living it and being there. At the end of the day, I'm responsible for my words and my thoughts and that's how I live.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Sometimes, girls focus too much on relationships - like, "I need a boyfriend!" But you should really just focus on yourself. But it will all come together when you least expect it.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

Scientology helps you lose your insanities. One of the keys is, they say, 'You're in charge of your life, buster. You're responsible for any condition you're in.' If I look at it that way, it helps.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.