Marianne Williamson Quotes

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Wisdom
  • Turn
  • Wounds

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Patience
  • Companion

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Joy

• I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Think
  • Peace
  • Joy

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Opportunities

• Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Heart
  • Joy

• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Distance

• If you're racist you're not that clever. I mean, you couldn't even figure out that we're all the f---ing same

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Same
  • Clever
  • Figure

• Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • Unique
  • Talent
  • Facts

• I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Love
  • Fight
  • Fighter

• When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Joy
  • Wisdom
  • Centered