Melody Beattie Quotes

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing songs because it's therapy.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

When I'm between projects, I keep a journal I call a 'thought log,' and it's my practice to write down whatever interests me.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

You look confused," said Adrian. I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things." He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.