Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Relationships are the Holy Spirit’s laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.”

— Marianne Williamson

252. “Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is – is a reflection of our thoughts.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

254. “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

255. “The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.”

— Marianne Williamson

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

260. “The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.”

— Marianne Williamson

261. “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

262. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

266. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

268. “Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

275. “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

278. “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

279. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

281. “With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

283. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

285. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

287. “Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.”

— Marianne Williamson

288. “It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.”

— Marianne Williamson

289. “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

290. “Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.”

— Marianne Williamson

291. “Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

292. “Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.”

— Marianne Williamson

293. “The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you; it radiates from within you.”

— Marianne Williamson

294. “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

295. “Putting love first means knowing that the universe supports you in creating the good, the holy, and the beautiful. It means knowing that you’re on the earth for a purpose, and that the purpose itself will create opportunities for its accomplishment.”

— Marianne Williamson

296. “Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.”

— Marianne Williamson

297. “When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.”

— Marianne Williamson

298. “Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

299. “You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.”

— Marianne Williamson

300. “Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.”

— Marianne Williamson