Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He asked for forgiveness and the American people gave it to him. Theirs is the higher morality.
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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.
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We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.
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I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
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Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.
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Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.
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What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
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No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.
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You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
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Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.
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Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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I know. And that's what took me so long.
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King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
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Love brings up everything unlike itself.
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Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
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A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.
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The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.
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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
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The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.