Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Don't think small and expect to have a big life.
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I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.
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I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.
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Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
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The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.
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Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.
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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
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Family... a group experience of love and support.
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If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
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There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's a fact. Every person in the world, no matter what size, shape, or form they are, deserves respect and love. But that doesn't mean we are supposed to pretend that something is healthy when in fact it is not.
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The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.
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Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
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I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
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My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
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Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight...
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When women think of power, we shouldn't think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we're going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women's voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That's the way it is in any species that survives.
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The Western world is having an identity crisis.
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By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.
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Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
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When love isn't in our lives, it's on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o'clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.
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As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
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If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.
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Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?