Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.”

— Marianne Williamson

352. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

354. “We were all born carrying a promise – a promise to make the world better – and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.”

— Marianne Williamson

355. “Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.”

— Marianne Williamson

356. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

358. “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

359. “God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.”

— Marianne Williamson

360. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

362. “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

363. “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

364. “Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

366. “If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

367. “When love isn’t in our lives, it’s on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o’clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.”

— Marianne Williamson

368. “The key to a successful career is realizing that it’s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.”

— Marianne Williamson

369. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

371. “It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.”

— Marianne Williamson

372. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

374. “Next time you’re about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.”

— Marianne Williamson

375. “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

376. “Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.”

— Marianne Williamson

377. “Faith doesn’t mean you don’t have to do the work; it just means you’re absolutely certain the work will pay off.”

— Marianne Williamson

378. “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

379. “Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.”

— Marianne Williamson

380. “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

381. “Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren’t open and your ears aren’t open and your mind’s not open and your heart’s not open – then even though the miracles are there – you’re not!”

— Marianne Williamson

382. “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

383. “Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That’s the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.”

— Marianne Williamson

384. “God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us.”

— Marianne Williamson

385. “If you think there’s something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.”

— Marianne Williamson

386. “It’s the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.”

— Marianne Williamson

387. “Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

389. “Sadness is just a place on the map. Don’t try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.”

— Marianne Williamson

390. “Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.”

— Marianne Williamson

391. “I don’t feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.”

— Marianne Williamson

392. “The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

394. “There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.”

— Marianne Williamson

395. “No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

397. “Be the most wonderful expression of you that you’re capable of.”

— Marianne Williamson

398. “So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.”

— Marianne Williamson

399. “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

400. “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