A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Earth, Love
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Choice, Love, Heart
I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Living
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: Win, Attitude, Perception
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Violence
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
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
—Marianne Williamson
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
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, People, Act, Rich
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Funny quotes, Women
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: Love, Past
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Peace
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
Sometimes it’s that which shatters us that liberates 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: Eternity, The Present, Time
The quality of your life doesn’t emerge from what happens, but from how fully you show up for what happens.
—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
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Ideas
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Peace
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
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
—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
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
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: Christianity, Peace
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: Nature, Think, Experience, Thinking, Life, Change
Joy, has no cost.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Joy, Excitement
The issue is not that our problems are too big but that our imaginations are too small.
—Marianne Williamson
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
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Charity, Feelings, Giving
The fear-mind is your own self-hatred posing as your best friend.
—Marianne Williamson
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