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We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
Marianne Williamson
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Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.
Marianne Williamson
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I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
Marianne Williamson
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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Marianne Williamson
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The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.
Marianne Williamson
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We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.
Marianne Williamson
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There is nothing spiritual about complacency.
Marianne Williamson
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During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.
Marianne Williamson
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Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
Marianne Williamson
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The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.
Marianne Williamson
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Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.
Marianne Williamson
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The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.
Marianne Williamson
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The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
Marianne Williamson
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Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.
Marianne Williamson
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Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
Marianne Williamson
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Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
Marianne Williamson
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I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
Marianne Williamson
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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
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Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
Marianne Williamson
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Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.
Marianne Williamson
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The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there.
Marianne Williamson
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You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
Marianne Williamson
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Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
Marianne Williamson
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
Marianne Williamson
