Melody Beattie Quotes

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

Accepting all that you are will lead you to live your best life and will allow you to be free and your true authentic self.

I don't think about my look that much, to be honest. It's what I've always known, it's what I've grown up with, and I wouldn't ever want to step too far away from my most authentic self.

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

When you spend so much time away from home, travelling around doing things like this, talking about yourself too much, which is often very painful... So, to actually come home and just be amongst people who know you extremely well, who you can't pretend to be anything other than yourself in front of, is a relief really. It gives you a sense of who you are again. You just don't get any time at home... it's such an existence of feeling very unsettled and travelling around. It's great.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.