Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

—Melody Beattie

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About Melody Beattie

Melody Lynn Beattie (née Valliancourt; May 26, 1948 – February 27, 2025) was an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.

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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

—Melody Beattie

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly; feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

—Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

—Torquato Tasso

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A person who believes… that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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