Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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 does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”

— Marianne Williamson

152. “Our deepest need is to be seen.”

— Marianne Williamson

153. “Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.”

— Marianne Williamson

154. “Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.”

— Marianne Williamson

155. “Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.”

— Marianne Williamson

156. “We are beautiful because God created us that way.”

— Marianne Williamson

157. “Things don’t spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!”

— Marianne Williamson

158. “I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”

— Marianne Williamson

159. “Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.”

— Marianne Williamson

160. “We don’t ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.”

— Marianne Williamson

161. “Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.”

— Marianne Williamson

162. “Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we’re deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.”

— Marianne Williamson

163. “The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.”

— Marianne Williamson

164. “The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.”

— Marianne Williamson

165. “Think of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.”

— Marianne Williamson

166. “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

167. “Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.”

— Marianne Williamson

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

171. “If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.”

— Marianne Williamson

172. “Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.”

— Marianne Williamson

173. “Actually, who are you not to be?”

— Marianne Williamson

174. “Every relationship is a gift exchange.”

— Marianne Williamson

175. “Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.”

— Marianne Williamson

176. “No one is any more or any less important than you are.”

— Marianne Williamson

177. “Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

178. “Feminine power isn’t something we go out and acquire; it’s already within us. It’s something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have.”

— Marianne Williamson

179. “The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.”

— Marianne Williamson

180. “Relationships never end, because they’re of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you’re missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they’ve come to visit.”

— Marianne Williamson

181. “We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.”

— Marianne Williamson

182. “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”

— Marianne Williamson

183. “You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that’s possible for you.”

— Marianne Williamson

184. “The love in me salutes the love in you.”

— Marianne Williamson

185. “Faith isn’t blind, it’s visionary.”

— Marianne Williamson

186. “Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it’s the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.”

— Marianne Williamson

187. “Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.”

— Marianne Williamson

188. “Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide – unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.”

— Marianne Williamson

189. “Without nourishing our own souls, we can’t nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.”

— Marianne Williamson

190. “It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.”

— Marianne Williamson

191. “There is no peace without forgiveness.”

— Marianne Williamson

192. “We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.”

— Marianne Williamson

193. “Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don’t want.”

— Marianne Williamson

194. “Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.”

— Marianne Williamson

195. “When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.”

— Marianne Williamson

196. “The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.”

— Marianne Williamson

197. “Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.”

— Marianne Williamson

198. “Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

199. “A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.”

— Marianne Williamson

200. “Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.”

— Marianne Williamson