Marianne Williamson Quotes
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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There is nothing spiritual about complacency.
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17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman's most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don't laugh at it anymore. I just realize that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.
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Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.
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I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
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The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
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God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us.
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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.
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Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
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You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.
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I'm certainly not saying anything new, and I'm not even saying anything all that different from what everyone else I know is saying right now - I'm saying what millions of people are saying. I'm just saying it publicly.
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The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
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Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.
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Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
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Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.
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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.
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Every relationship is a gift exchange.
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The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.
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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.