Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.”

— Marianne Williamson

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

406. “You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

408. “Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.”

— Marianne Williamson

409. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

411. “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

412. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

415. “Bless more; blame less.”

— Marianne Williamson

416. “Unless we can be like children, we can’t be happy.”

— Marianne Williamson

417. “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

418. “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

419. “The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

420. “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

421. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

425. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

428. “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

429. “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

430. “The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.”

— Marianne Williamson

431. “The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.”

— Marianne Williamson

432. “Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one, the other disappears. All the darkness in my life – the fears, neuroses, dysfunctions, and diseases – are not so much things as the absence of things. They represent not the presence of a problem but rather the absence of the answer. And the answer is love. All fearful manifestations disappear in the presence of love.”

— Marianne Williamson

433. “The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.”

— Marianne Williamson

434. “The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.”

— Marianne Williamson

435. “Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.”

— Marianne Williamson

436. “All of a sudden, you’re not too proud to ask for help. That’s what it means to surrender to God.”

— Marianne Williamson

437. “The irony is that the opposite is true: available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. They might actually hang around long enough to get to know us. They could melt our defenses, not through violence but through love. This is what the ego doesn’t want us to see. Available people are frightening. They threaten the ego’s citadel. The reason we’re not attracted to them is because we’re not available ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

438. “The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.”

— Marianne Williamson

439. “The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment; God’s creation holds nothing against us.”

— Marianne Williamson

440. “A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing – the wings of my newborn self.”

— Marianne Williamson

441. “Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there’s more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.”

— Marianne Williamson

442. “I’ve never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.”

— Marianne Williamson

443. “If I’m convinced that I’m not good enough, I will have a difficult time accepting someone into my life who thinks I am. It’s the Groucho Marx syndrome of not wanting to like anyone who would want me in their club. The only way that I can accept someone’s finding me wonderful, is if I find myself wonderful. But to the ego, self-acceptance is death.”

— Marianne Williamson

444. “Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing – even if it’s just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.”

— Marianne Williamson

445. “There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

446. “In the Holy Relationship, it’s understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don’t hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.”

— Marianne Williamson

447. “Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.”

— Marianne Williamson

448. “Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.”

— Marianne Williamson

449. “Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

450. “When you carry yesterday’s thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.”

— Marianne Williamson