The best Quotes by Melody Beattie

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

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.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

Minnesota, I love you snow much!

Minnesota Forecast. Today: Sun. Tomorrow: Snow. Next Day: Tornado, probably.

Minnesota girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Most places would call it a crippling snowstorm. In Minnesota, we call it Tuesday.

Another way of enjoying Minnesota is to move to Wisconsin.

Minnesota: the only place where I get excited over a lake.

Well, I just looked in the mirror
And things aren't looking so good
I'm looking California
And feeling Minnesota

I'm from Minnesota, where there's plenty hot-dogs for everyone. Perhaps even too many...

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Minnesota - and that's pretty much the same thing.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Learn to treasure your life because unfortunately, it can be taken away from you anytime.

Even if things are painful and tough, people should appreciate what it means to be alive.

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.

It's up to you to decide whether you want the new year to be an engine or a break.

Happy new year. Not that there's anything to be happy about, though... I'm just saying it because it's the norm.

You always want to end the year on a high note.

We have 365 days ahead of us. 365 new chances, hopes, and possibilities to make the world a better place. Let's go!

Don't grasp the past, you need both hands for the future.

If you want a year to be successful, you'll have to start working on January 1st.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.