Melody Beattie Quotes

We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.

Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.

Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.

Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up.

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it.

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

Many times people will say, you know, you're such a great role model. Well, that's great, but at the end of the day, you have to learn to be your own best role model and learn what makes you happy, not necessarily what society thinks you're supposed to be or women that you look up to, what they're doing. I look at that as being a symbol in a blueprint, but never forget that who you are is what's most important.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

Milton Katselas said, "Who are you to look down your nose at Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton? Who do you think you are?" I was doing this kooky meditation at the time called inner-guide meditation, where you go into a cave and you have a guide, and you fly around. So I said to my inner guide, "Take me to the energy that's blocking me from accepting my casting" - because I understood it intellectually, but I didn't want to do it in my heart.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.