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  • #1
    Melody Beattie
    “I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.”
    Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

  • #2
    Melody Beattie
    “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.”
    Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

  • #3
    Melody Beattie
    “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.”
    Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

  • #4
    Melody Beattie
    “Beliefs create reality”
    Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

  • #5
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #6
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #7
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #8
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #9
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #10
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #11
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Love weighs nothing.”
    Barbara Kingsolver

  • #12
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #13
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #14
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.”
    Barbara Kingsolver

  • #15
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #16
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #17
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I’ve only found sorrow.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #18
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “We are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #19
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #20
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
    Charlotte Bronte

  • #21
    Zig Ziglar
    “Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #22
    Steve Maraboli
    “If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #23
    Stephen Richards
    “Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.”
    Stephen Richards

  • #24
    Stephen Richards
    “When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.”
    Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”
    mark twain

  • #26
    Ingrid Bergman
    “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”
    Ingrid Bergman

  • #27
    Robin Sharma
    “Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

  • #28
    Arthur Rubinstein
    “Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
    Arthur Rubinstein

  • #29
    Debra Anastasia
    “Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you”
    Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie



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