Marianne Williamson Quotes
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We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
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Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
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The world is healed one loving thought at a time.
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You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
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When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
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To me, everything happening inside of us is political.
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The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.
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It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
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Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
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If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.
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Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.
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We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.
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Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.
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I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.
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We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.
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There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.
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Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.
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You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.
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Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.
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If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.