Quotes

“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

“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.” Marianne Williamson

“Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.” Marianne Williamson

“Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.” Marianne Williamson

“Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.” Marianne Williamson

“Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.” Marianne Williamson

“The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.” Marianne Williamson

“In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.” Marianne Williamson

“If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.” Marianne Williamson

“Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.” Marianne Williamson

“As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.” Marianne Williamson

“I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.” Marianne Williamson

“Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.” Marianne Williamson

“The holidays are only holy if we make them so.” Marianne Williamson

“When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.” Marianne Williamson

“When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.” Marianne Williamson

“With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.” Marianne Williamson

“You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.” Marianne Williamson

“The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.” Marianne Williamson

“All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.” Marianne Williamson

“I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.” Marianne Williamson

“Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.” Marianne Williamson

“When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.” Marianne Williamson

“While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.” 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

“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

“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.” Marianne Williamson

“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.” Marianne Williamson

“My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.” Marianne Williamson

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” John Wooden