Marianne Williamson quotes

Marianne Williamson is an American author, spiritual leader, and political activist. Her self-help books and lectures on spirituality have inspired millions of people around the world. She has campaigned for social justice and ran for President of the United States. Here are 248 of her quotes:

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right. (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. View quote
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. View quote
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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. View quote
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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us... There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. View quote
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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. View quote
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We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? View quote
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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse. View quote
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In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. View quote
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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train. View quote
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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. (Marianne Williamson)
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. View quote
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong. View quote
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Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace. View quote
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... available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. View quote
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To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player... The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart. View quote
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Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is. View quote
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We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face. View quote
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. (Marianne Williamson)
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. View quote
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others. View quote
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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved. View quote
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When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious. View quote
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Marianne Williamson

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Photo: Matt Johnson, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: July 8, 1952
Quotes count: 248
Wikipedia: Marianne Williamson

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