Marianne Williamson 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.
Marianne Williamson
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
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.
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
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
Marianne Williamson
If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
... available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
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.
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.
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Marianne Williamson
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.
Marianne Williamson
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Marianne Williamson