Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

- Melody Beattie

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

- Melody Beattie

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set th…

- Melody Beattie

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

- Melody Beattie

Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It me…

- Melody Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to cl…

- Melody Beattie

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in anothe…

- Melody Beattie

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You gi…

- Melody Beattie

Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows mo…

- Melody Beattie