More Language of Letting Go Quotes

“Learn to recognize longing and yearning for what we can’t have. And ask for the courage and wisdom to learn about the true delights of available, requited love.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“We may not be able to have everything we want in life. And we may sometimes get things we thought we wanted, then change our mind. But we still don’t have to torture ourselves by telling ourselves that we can’t have what we want.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“If the walls are too confining and limiting and you’re feeling stuck and bored”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“In all this busyness and living”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“We cannot control everything that happens to us. But we can control our response to those things. We cannot control the feelings of others—their fear, their power trips, their issues. All that we can choose is how we want to respond.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Manipulators prey on our weak spots.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“The only way that you’ll have a successful career”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“What a frightening prospect it is to take your life into your own hands”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“God, help me start having some fun.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Once you get into the desert there’s no going back,” said the camel driver. “And when you can’t go back”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Look at the two-by-fours that you have to cross every day in your life. Are you allowing fear of a worst-case scenario to upset your balance? Put the situation back on the ground.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“One tool that has never let me down when it comes to anxiety and fear is working Step One of the Twelve Step program. I admit that I’m powerless over my panic and fear”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Someone said, “Let go and let God,” and this is a wonderful recipe for overcoming fear or getting out of a tight place. In any case, the rule for creation is always to let. — Emmet Fox”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“It’s time to face up to the fact that the past is gone, and any effort to repeat it is a sure way to stay stuck in old blueprints that you would have already outgrown if you hadn’t been so busy clinging to what you have already been through.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“It may sound odd”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“I have never successfully treated or solved one problem in my life by obsessing or controlling. I’ve yet to accomplish anything by worrying. And manipulation has not wrought one successful outcome. But I forget that from time to time.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Focus”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“You might not be going through a time in your life that you relish”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Let each member of your family be who he or she is. Love them as much as you can. But if you never got along all that well before, you might not get along now, even after you open your heart.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“What if you could fall in love with your life and feel that way each day? I’m not saying romantic relationships are bad. They’re not. They’re part of being human and getting our needs met. But what if we could take all that passion and focus it into falling in love with life?”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“An afflicted stream is more than an isolated emotion. It’s a position”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Most teachers of our times and from times long past—from the Dalai Lama to Emmet Fox—agree on one thing: stay away from murky”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Instead of waiting to win the lottery”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“It’s easy to spend our lives working toward a goal, convinced that if we could only get there, we’d be truly happy then. Today is the only moment we have. If we wait until tomorrow to be happy, we’ll miss out on the beauty of today. Have your plans. Set goals. Let yourself be happy now.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Life is going to take you on your own journey of personal transformation. You may have to let go of some things. But don’t worry”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“One year I noticed that the anniversary of Shane’s death had passed”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“You can get wherever you want to go from where you are now. All it takes is faith”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“What I think of as a box might be unthinkable freedom for you today. In the future”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“God”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“God, remind me to live my life fully every day.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations