Marianne Williamson quotes

 quotes - Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”

— Marianne Williamson

 quotes - The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

“The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.”

— Marianne Williamson

 quotes - Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

— Marianne Williamson

 quotes - The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”

— 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

“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

“Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.”

— 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

“May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”

— 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

“Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.”

— 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

“Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.”

— Marianne Williamson

“We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?”

— Marianne Williamson

“I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence - has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.”

— Marianne Williamson

“People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.”

— Marianne Williamson

“As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.”

— 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 can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.”

— Marianne Williamson

“One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Spirit is impervious to illness.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.”

— Marianne Williamson

“If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.”

— Marianne Williamson