Marianne Williamson Quotes

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

Marianne Williamson

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• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Judge

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • World
  • Father
  • Son

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • World
  • Rest

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Energy
  • Present

• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • You
  • Woman

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Smile

• 'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Girl

• It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • World
  • Important
  • Pain

• For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Great
  • Vision

• They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Dreams
  • Promised

• It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • Theatre
  • Communication

• We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Wine

• It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Heart
  • Power