A Quote by Melody Beattie

Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
American - Writer
Born: May 26, 1948

I don't like anything with too much dependency. Children are very dependent, which is probably why we never had them.

Deborah Meaden

I heard I was the self-proclaimed White Mamba, which I can say I have never self-proclaimed myself anything.

Diana Taurasi

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

Wangari Maathai

I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

Ted Sarandos

We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.

Max Walker

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Alan Cohen

Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet.

Max Walker

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Paul LePage

I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.

Kelly Carlin-McCall

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

William Gibson

Uganda's budget is 40 percent aid-dependent. Ghana's budget is 50 percent aid-dependent. Even if you cancel the debt, you don't eliminate that aid dependency. This is what I mean by getting to the fundamental root causes of the problem. Government, the state sectors in many African countries need to be slashed so that, you know, you put a greater deal of reliance on the private sector. The private sector is the engine of growth. Africa's economy needs to grow but they're not growing.

George W. Bush

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Mitt Romney

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Rafael Cruz

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

Chris Prentiss

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

Helen Fisher

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