Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The body IS a miracle, after all.”

— Marianne Williamson

252. “Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.”

— Marianne Williamson

253. “As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.”

— Marianne Williamson

254. “For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.”

— Marianne Williamson

255. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

257. “Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.”

— Marianne Williamson

258. “Love brings up everything unlike itself.”

— Marianne Williamson

259. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

261. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

265. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

267. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

272. “Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.”

— Marianne Williamson

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

280. “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

281. “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

282. “Every judgement blocks the light!”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

284. “Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.”

— Marianne Williamson

285. “Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

286. “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

287. “The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.”

— Marianne Williamson

288. “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

289. “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

290. “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

291. “Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

293. “Once we truly understand that God’s will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God’s will be done.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

299. “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

300. “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