Gratitude By Melody Beattie Quotes

#1. Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

Adrian Pasdar

#2. Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.

Ellen Glasgow

#3. Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

Melody Beattie

#4. Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Melody Beattie

#5. Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

Melody Beattie

#6. Gratitude - practicing gratitude. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie

Jennifer Takagi

#7. We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and other states who see these public affirmations as another step towards the country's oblivion.

Mel White

#8. If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

Melody Beattie

#9. Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Melody Beattie

#10. I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.

James Roday

#11. The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

Geraldo Rivera

#12. Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Frederick Douglass

#13. Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.

Melody Beattie

#14. Oh baby, your planet sounds like paradise but it just doesn't fly down here in the trenches.

Poppet

#15. Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

Melody Beattie

#16. You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.

Elena Ferrante

#17. Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

Lester R. Brown