Marianne Williamson Quotes
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.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.
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Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul's journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.
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I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Instead of asking students to 'declare their major' we should ask students to 'list what they will do anything to avoid.' It just makes a lot more sense.
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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.
