Marianne Williamson Quotes

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Marianne Williamson

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• It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • People
  • Job
  • Couple

• I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Best

• When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Know
  • Hair

• If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Fall
  • Brains
  • Open-minded

• Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Eyes
  • Rest
  • Wisdom

• The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Purpose

• The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Way
  • Order

• Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Knowledge
  • Ability
  • Order

• I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Accepting
  • Call Me

• Love between a man and woman is war.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Love
  • War
  • Man

• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Small

• I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Believe
  • Design
  • Motherhood

• Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

  

  David Deida
  • Suffering
  • Refusal

• Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

  

  Moliere
  • Virtue
  • Hypocrisy
  • Vice

• I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Comedies
  • Tragedies

• There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Decision
  • Consciousness
  • Solitude

• The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

  

  William James
  • Action
  • Reason
  • Solutions

• Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Consciousness
  • Tragedies
  • Outraged