Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.”

— Marianne Williamson

252. “Love brings up everything unlike itself.”

— Marianne Williamson

253. “Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that’s important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.”

— Marianne Williamson

254. “In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”

— Marianne Williamson

255. “On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.”

— Marianne Williamson

256. “In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.”

— Marianne Williamson

257. “Relationships are the Holy Spirit’s laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.”

— Marianne Williamson

258. “Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.”

— Marianne Williamson

259. “Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.”

— Marianne Williamson

260. “We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.”

— Marianne Williamson

261. “We aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.”

— Marianne Williamson

262. “Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.”

— Marianne Williamson

263. “The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.”

— Marianne Williamson

264. “I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.”

— Marianne Williamson

265. “Envision possibility. Don’t worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.”

— Marianne Williamson

266. “Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.”

— Marianne Williamson

267. “It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.”

— Marianne Williamson

268. “If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.”

— Marianne Williamson

269. “Once you reach a certain age, you’re either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.”

— Marianne Williamson

270. “Instead of praying: ‘Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,’ try: ‘Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.’”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

272. “Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth.”

— Marianne Williamson

273. “The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.”

— Marianne Williamson

274. “The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.”

— Marianne Williamson

275. “Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.”

— Marianne Williamson

276. “We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.”

— Marianne Williamson

277. “We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based on fear and instead accepting a thought system based on love.”

— Marianne Williamson

278. “The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.”

— Marianne Williamson

279. “I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, ‘Why not me?’”

— Marianne Williamson

280. “Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us.”

— Marianne Williamson

281. “The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.”

— Marianne Williamson

282. “The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.”

— Marianne Williamson

283. “The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.”

— Marianne Williamson

284. “We’re all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.”

— Marianne Williamson

285. “The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.”

— Marianne Williamson

286. “Do not fear. Look beyond what’s dying to what’s being born.”

— Marianne Williamson

287. “Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.”

— Marianne Williamson

288. “The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”

— Marianne Williamson

289. “The body IS a miracle, after all.”

— Marianne Williamson

290. “Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.”

— Marianne Williamson

291. “Be the most wonderful expression of you that you’re capable of.”

— Marianne Williamson

292. “The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.”

— Marianne Williamson

293. “The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.”

— Marianne Williamson

294. “The heart’s transformation is not attained through the mind – it’s attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.”

— Marianne Williamson

295. “A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.”

— Marianne Williamson

296. “Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.”

— Marianne Williamson

297. “If we never take a risk, we’ll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.”

— Marianne Williamson

298. “As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.”

— Marianne Williamson

299. “In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.”

— Marianne Williamson

300. “Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.”

— Marianne Williamson