Melody Beattie Quotes

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

You have to feel good about yourself.

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

I deserve to live a good life, and I begin now.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

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

I want people to feel good about themselves.

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.