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 thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.
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The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.
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Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
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For me, I am a really tall woman, and I am really tall in heels, and I feel bigger, and I like being bigger. I think I was a king in a past life.
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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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.
