Melody Beattie Quotes About Choices
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Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
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I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.
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We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.
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When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
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Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.
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If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.
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