Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.”

— Marianne Williamson

152. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

154. “The soul is the truth of who we are.”

— Marianne Williamson

155. “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

156. “God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.”

— Marianne Williamson

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

160. “Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

161. “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

162. “Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

164. “Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

176. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

178. “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

179. “Every relationship is a gift exchange.”

— Marianne Williamson

180. “It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what’s possible for you now.”

— Marianne Williamson

181. “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

182. “The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

186. “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

187. “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

188. “The Founders didn’t mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.”

— Marianne Williamson

189. “Once you’ve had enough and you can’t do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That’s when your head cracks open and God comes in.”

— Marianne Williamson

190. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

192. “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

193. “Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.”

— Marianne Williamson

194. “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

196. “A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.”

— Marianne Williamson

197. “We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.”

— Marianne Williamson

198. “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

199. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson