Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

311. “In the Jewish religion it says – in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come.”

— Marianne Williamson

312. “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

313. “My ego mind – my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love – would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.”

— Marianne Williamson

314. “We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that’s possible and pain that’s all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.”

— Marianne Williamson

315. “Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

317. “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

318. “There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.”

— Marianne Williamson

319. “May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”

— Marianne Williamson

320. “Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

322. “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

323. “Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.”

— Marianne Williamson

324. “When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.”

— Marianne Williamson

325. “What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t come from the love we weren’t given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren’t giving in the present.”

— Marianne Williamson

326. “Every judgement blocks the light!”

— Marianne Williamson

327. “Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.”

— Marianne Williamson

328. “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

329. “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

330. “Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.”

— Marianne Williamson

331. “God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

332. “The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it’s our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.”

— Marianne Williamson

333. “The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

335. “The wise person doesn’t ask, “What have I achieved?” but rather, “What have I contributed?””

— Marianne Williamson

336. “Dear Lord, please lift me up and heal me. Cast out of my mind all thoughts that are not of You. Cast out of me all harsh and critical nature. Cast out of me all violence and all anger. Cast out of me all demons from my past. For I would be made new. I wish to walk so close to You that we might be as one.”

— Marianne Williamson

337. “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

338. “As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance – an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love – then external lack is bound to be temporary.”

— Marianne Williamson

339. “Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.”

— Marianne Williamson

340. “The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

341. “I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on to a vision invokes the circumstances by which the vision is achieved. Vision is content; material circumstances mere form.”

— Marianne Williamson

342. “Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.”

— Marianne Williamson

343. “Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.”

— Marianne Williamson

344. “There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.”

— Marianne Williamson

345. “Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.”

— Marianne Williamson

346. “Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

348. “Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.”

— Marianne Williamson

349. “It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.”

— Marianne Williamson

350. “Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.”

— Marianne Williamson