Marianne Williamson Quotes
The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.
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You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.
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I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.
