Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.”

— Marianne Williamson

352. “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

353. “Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.”

— Marianne Williamson

354. “Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”

— Marianne Williamson

355. “Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It’s not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.”

— Marianne Williamson

356. “We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.”

— Marianne Williamson

357. “I didn’t know, until reading A Course in Miracles, that a miracle is a reasonable thing to ask for. I didn’t know that a miracle is just a shift in perception.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

359. “When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”

— Marianne Williamson

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

363. “God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.”

— Marianne Williamson

364. “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

365. “In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.”

— Marianne Williamson

366. “Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.”

— Marianne Williamson

367. “Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

368. “Jesus lived within this world of fear, and perceived only love. Every action, every word, every thought was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. He was a thoroughly purified being. To think about him is to think about, and so to call forth, the perfect love inside ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

372. “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

373. “Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

376. “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

377. “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

378. “In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.”

— Marianne Williamson

379. “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

380. “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

381. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

383. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

386. “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

387. “The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul’s true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.”

— Marianne Williamson

388. “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

389. “The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.”

— Marianne Williamson

390. “Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

394. “Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.”

— Marianne Williamson

395. “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

396. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

399. “No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.”

— Marianne Williamson

400. “Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.”

— Marianne Williamson