Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.
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The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.
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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
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Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
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We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
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You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.
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Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.
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As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.
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In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
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The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.
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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.
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Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.
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When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.