Marianne Williamson Quotes
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
-
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
-
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
-
On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
-
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
-
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
-
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
-
Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
-
If you fire people, you fire customers.
-
Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
-
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
-
I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
-
Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
-
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
-
You don't know where life takes you.
-
I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
-
We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
-
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.
-
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
-
As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
-
On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then I give myself permission not to do everything on that list. I'm much more clear about my priorities: What are those moments of connection that are most important to me? Today is a busy workday but it's also a snow day, so I'm going cross-country skiing with my husband. And then I'll come back and finish my work., I do a brain dump where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then I give myself permission not to do everything on that list. I'm much more clear about my priorities: What are those moments of connection that are most important to me? Today is a busy workday but it's also a snow day, so I'm going cross-country skiing with my husband. And then I'll come back and finish my work.
-
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
