"I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life."

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Source : Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

Melody Beattie

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.”
“When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.”
“I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
“There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.”

Source : Simon R. Green, Pen Densham (1991). “Kevin Costner is Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves: a novel”, Berkley
“The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.”
“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
“There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.”

Source : Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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