More Language of Letting Go Quotes

“Before you take action, get centered, calm, and clear.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Often, if we were hurt as children or hurt frequently as adults, we put on a suit of emotional armor to protect us from being hurt more. We lower our visor to avoid seeing the pain and block out all hurtful sights.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“God, help me let go of everything that is blocking me from fully and joyfully living my life today.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Stop sabotaging yourself. Be your own psychic. Listen to what you’re saying, and give yourself the same basic advice you’d give to a friend. You may be the exception to the rule, but probably not.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Although compassion is good, too much compassion can cripple the people we’re trying to love.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Sometimes, it’s easy to step across that line and have too much compassion for the people in our lives.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“God, help me learn to use a gentle touch with everyone I love.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“If you really love something or someone, don’t hold on too tightly.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Take people at face value. Say what you mean in your dealings with others, so they can take you at face value, too.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“God, help me be a diplomat. Teach me how to own my power in a gentle, peaceful way.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“You can speak softly and still carry a great big stick.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“Sometimes when we start to own our power after years—maybe a lifetime—of being timid and weak, we become overly aggressive trying to get our point across.”
― Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“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