Melody Beattie Quotes

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I invented myself.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

One creates oneself.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.