Gratitude: Inspirations by Melody Beattie
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"Today, celebrate who you are.""We can show our gratitude for life in even our smallest actions.""Could it be that you're who you are and where you are for now for a reason?"Featuring stirring affirmations from Melody Beattie, Gratitude encourages and inspires readers to reconnect with what's truly important in life. Beyond today's often-harried lifestyle, the colorful pages in this book capture the essence of everyday blessings--the twists and turns of challenges, the friends we make, and the simple pleasures that create a lasting attitude of gratitude.
Melody Beattie
Melody Beattie is the New York Times bestselling author of Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, and The Lessons of Love.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Over the years I have realized how powerful GRATITUDE really is!It can calm you down, focus your thoughts, and make you happier.I have proven it over and over and over again :)This book is a sweet little reminder of daily thoughts for gratitude...Because sometimes it is really hard to think of anything you are grateful for!"Look closely at the ordinary in your life. While you're being grateful, don't forget to express pure, sheer gratitude for how beautiful the ordinary really is. We can easily overlook the ordinary and take it for granted. The sun rises and sets, the seasons come and go, and we forget how beautiful and sensational the familiar really is."Here is another one of my favorites from the book:"Sometimes we get so busy trying to get more, we forget to be thankful for what we've got."One more:"... help me remember to be thankful even when the gift is not quite what I expected."Be grateful for the BIG things!Be grateful for the LITTLE things!Life is full of things to be grateful for!You just have to be willing to look for them :)
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very nice inspirations to have handy to read when you need pick me up.
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Gratitude - Melody Beattie
Gratitude
Gratitude
Inspirations by Melody Beattie
Author of The Language of Letting Go
Hazelden Publishing
Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176
800-328-9000
hazelden.org/bookstore
©2007 by Hazelden Foundation
Printed in the United States of America
No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beattie, Melody.
Gratitude : inspirations / by Melody Beattie.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59285-408-0 (softcover)
ISBN-10: 1-59285-408-7 (softcover)
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-59285-785-2
1. Gratitude—Religious aspects—Meditations. I. Title.
BL65.G73.B43 2007
158.1'8—dc22 2006049737
Editor's note
The text in this book has been adapted from More Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie.
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Cover and interior design by David Spohn
Typesetting by Prism Publishing Center
Introduction
In our busy, harried lives, it's tempting to focus on what we haven't accomplished and what we don't yet possess. That trap of more, more, more only alienates us from our loved ones and our connectedness with a Higher Power. The solution to reconnecting to what's important in life can be as simple as getting in touch with the power of gratitude.
With practice, it is possible to redirect our focus from large, daunting problems to life's small, beautiful blessings that are ever present and ever