Melody Beattie Quotes

I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do.

Life drew me and I followed it.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.