Codependent Quotes

• A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

  Melody Beattie

  Behavior, Obsessed, Persons

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.34, Hazelden Publishing

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• in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Needs, Victim

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• Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

  Barbara Johnson

  Mean, Eye, Dies

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.204, Zondervan

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• What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

  Jean Piaget

  Knows

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• Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.

  Melody Beattie

  Pain, Problem, Behavior

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.36, Hazelden Publishing

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• I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Together, Needs, Bigs

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• What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.

  Melody Beattie

  Caring, People, Answers

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.304, Hazelden Publishing

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• Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Thinking, Worry, World

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.36, Grove Press

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  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.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

  Melody Beattie

  Real, Rejects You, Rejection

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.68, Hazelden Publishing

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• It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

  Melody Beattie

  Giving Up, Growing Up, Crazy

  "Treating Codependence: Q&A With Author Melody Beattie". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

  Andy Richter

  Done, Want, Littles

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Change, Perception, Belief

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• If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.

  Susan Juby

  Alive, Conscious, Ifs

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

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Years

  Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

  Susan Juby

  Mother, Trying, Baggage

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Fullness Of Life, Being Thankful

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• I'm obsessed with my cat. We have a really strong, really weird codependent, almost Bella/Edward relationship. I'm going to be a crazy cat lady one day, I'm sure.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Crazy, Cat

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• Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

  Rene Russo

  Way, Married, Being Married

  "Rene Russo Goes Two For the Money". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 7, 2005.

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