The Lessons of Love Quotes

“You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167

love always found itself again.”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Divine order, the celestial calendar that ticks off the events of our lives, no longer seemed trustworthy. It felt selectively “abusive. On a physical and emotional level, it left me in excruciating pain. On a spiritual level, it left me bankrupt.”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Like it or not, I was already learning that in the worst and darkest times, I could find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn’t want to learn was the other, harsher lesson—that in life’s brightest moments there could also be unbearable pain. I wasn’t prepared to accept it, not yet. The lesson was too hard, too grown-up, too inherently cruel.”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Much of my life I had spent time out of my body, but in a different way. I had learned to ignore myself. I had abandoned myself—the way you do when you think who you are, what you feel, what you want is wrong.”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t.”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“The universe is dancing with me, playing with me again. I’m dancing with it. My heart is open. I can hear it. I can hear me. The magic is back”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take