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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Marianne Williamson (American Activist)

Inspirational Quotations by Marianne Williamson (American Activist)

Marianne Williamson (b.1952) is a spiritual teacher, author and lecturer. She has published ten books, including four New York Times #1 bestsellers. She is the founder of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area, and the co-founder of The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESULTS organization, which works to end poverty in the United States and around the world. Williamson is also the force behind Sister Giant, a series of seminars and teaching sessions that provides women with the information and tools needed to be political candidates. Through these seminars, she encourages women to run for office and align their politics with their spiritual values.

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As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Foresight

The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There’s more than room for everyone; in fact, there’s a need for everyone.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Achieve, Act, People, Rich

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Peace, Christianity

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Change

Most people limit their lives by censoring their desires.
—Marianne Williamson

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Community

Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Perception, Attitude, Win

I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Living

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Peace

Everyone you meet will bring you greater peace or greater anxiety, depending on what you choose to bring them.
—Marianne Williamson

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
—Marianne Williamson

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: The Present, Time, Eternity

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Love

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Love, Choice, Heart

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Think, Experience, Nature, Life, Thinking, Change

Sometimes it’s that which shatters us that liberates us.
—Marianne Williamson

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Meaning doesn’t lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren’t love – the money, the car, the house, the prestige – we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re nothing.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Knowledge, Fear, Love, Courage

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Miracles

Success means that we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Success

There is a plan for our lives – God’s plan – and it oversees exactly where we are and where we need to be going. As soon as we have learned to live most brightly in our present conditions, new and better ones will arrive immediately.
—Marianne Williamson

The fear-mind is your own self-hatred posing as your best friend.
—Marianne Williamson

In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace.
—Marianne Williamson

Joy, has no cost.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Excitement, Joy

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
—Marianne Williamson

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Past, Love

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Risk, Confidence, Fear, Power, Courage, Being True to Yourself, People, Authors & Writing, Talent, God

The issue is not that our problems are too big but that our imaginations are too small.
—Marianne Williamson

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, and where we are, we have more energy to give to life. We are not wasting our time trying to make things different.
—Marianne Williamson

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Ideas

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