Melody Beattie Quotes

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

My life has been about big changes.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

Things can change. Life is all a learning process.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.