Marianne Williamson Quotes
The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
Quotes to Explore
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
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What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.
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The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
