I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Living
The issue is not that our problems are too big but that our imaginations are too small.
—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, Love, Courage, Fear
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
Sometimes it’s that which shatters us that liberates us.
—Marianne Williamson
Most people limit their lives by censoring their desires.
—Marianne Williamson
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
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
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, Win, Attitude
The quality of your life doesn’t emerge from what happens, but from how fully you show up for what happens.
—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
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Violence
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
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
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Heart, Love, Choice
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
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
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
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
—Marianne Williamson
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Helpfulness
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
—Marianne Williamson
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Ideas
God is definitely out of the closet.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Evangelism
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 fear-mind is your own self-hatred posing as your best friend.
—Marianne Williamson
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: God, Talent, Being True to Yourself, Courage, People, Power, Fear, Risk, Authors & Writing, Confidence
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
Everyone you meet will bring you greater peace or greater anxiety, depending on what you choose to bring them.
—Marianne Williamson
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
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: Love, Earth
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