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On Self Esteem -

 

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

 

- Eleanor Roosevelt

On Grudge Holding and Resentment -

"Resentment is like you taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

 
- Source unknown. 

 

On Control / Controlling:

"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within our control and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and cannot control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible...    ...Remember too, that if you think you have free rein over things that are naturally beyond your control, or if you attempt to adopt the affairs of others as your own, your pursuits will be thwarted and you will become a frustrated, anxious and fault-finding person."

- Epicetus, Stoic Philosopher (In approx. 95 AD.) 

 

 

Of those now labeled alcoholic, Abraham Lincoln said:

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."

- Thanks to Caryn B. for this quote.

On the originally planned title for her book: Codependent No More.

 

"I wanted to call it Codependent, Not So Much. The publisher said it would never sell and suggested Codependent No More; which is obviously impossible on a practical level. Sometimes in recovery we have to bow to the demands of accounting." 

 

- Melody Beattie, in her keynote speech at STAR 10. (Sierra Tucson alumni reunion.)

On close-mindedness and barriers to Recovery:

 

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

— Herbert Spencer

On Service

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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