Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.”

— Marianne Williamson

302. “Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.”

— Marianne Williamson

303. “In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.”

— Marianne Williamson

304. “Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it...”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

307. “Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.”

— Marianne Williamson

308. “I don’t think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

310. “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

311. “The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that’s been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.”

— Marianne Williamson

312. “The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.”

— Marianne Williamson

313. “The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.”

— Marianne Williamson

314. “We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.”

— Marianne Williamson

315. “Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.”

— Marianne Williamson

316. “Love is to people what water is to plants.”

— Marianne Williamson

317. “Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.”

— Marianne Williamson

318. “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

319. “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

320. “Only what I’m not giving is what is lacking in any situation.”

— Marianne Williamson

321. “The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.”

— Marianne Williamson

322. “Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we’ve seen it up close.”

— Marianne Williamson

323. “The biggest problem is our lack of “response-ability.” That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.”

— Marianne Williamson

324. “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

325. “If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.”

— Marianne Williamson

326. “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

327. “Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn’t nurture. It doesn’t love. And without those things, a woman’s soul is bereft.”

— Marianne Williamson

328. “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

329. “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

330. “Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.”

— Marianne Williamson

331. “Forgiveness is ‘selective remembering’ – a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.”

— Marianne Williamson

332. “In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

334. “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

335. “The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.”

— Marianne Williamson

336. “Achievement doesn’t come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.”

— Marianne Williamson

337. “When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.”

— Marianne Williamson

338. “I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God’s purposes – love for all beings – is the center of all right living.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

340. “The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.”

— Marianne Williamson

341. “There can be no darkness where I provide the light.”

— Marianne Williamson

342. “The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.”

— Marianne Williamson

343. “Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet.”

— Marianne Williamson

344. “To the extent we are perceiving anyone’s guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit – we’re closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.”

— Marianne Williamson

345. “Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.”

— Marianne Williamson

346. “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

347. “We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.”

— Marianne Williamson

348. “Again – nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.”

— Marianne Williamson

349. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” What that means is this: Love is real. It’s an eternal creation and nothing can destroy it. Anything that isn’t love is an illusion. Remember this, and you’ll be at.”

— Marianne Williamson

350. “We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.”

— Marianne Williamson