Melody Beattie Quotes

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

We work to become, not to acquire.

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

I only focus on myself. I want to improve myself.

There's always things that I can improve on.

I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation.

I learned a lot: sometimes you have to be patient. Sometimes you have to take care of your body. Sometimes you have to learn from outside to be good in the future.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.