Melody Beattie

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

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 clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.