Marianne Williamson Quotes

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

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Independent
  • Security
  • Independence

• My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Life
  • Team
  • Respect

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
  • Been
  • Where

• A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Important
  • Balance

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Feeling
  • City

• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Law
  • Space

• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Today
  • Best
  • Present

• Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Women
  • Grow

• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Home
  • American
  • Freedom

• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Surprised
  • Self-Esteem
  • Addict

• I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Sadness

• Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Read
  • Deal
  • Sadness

• I am not proud of the King of Bahrain, in whose name people have been killed.

  

  Zainab al-Khawaja
  • People
  • Proud
  • King

• 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
  • Place
  • Sadness
  • Resist