“You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.” -Marianne Williamson
110 Marianne Williamson Quotes
- “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
2. “And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”
3. “Love is to people what water is to plants.”
4. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
5. “Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.”
6. “In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”
7. “If a train doesn’t stop at your station, then it’s not your train.”
8. “Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”
9. “Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
10. “Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.”
11. “Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”
12. “The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving”
13. “Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”
14. “Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.”
Marianne Williamson Quotes About Life
15. “We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what’s wrong in our life, or we can focus on what’s right.”
16. “Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.”
17. “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
18. “You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.”
19. “You are loved, and your purpose is to love.”
20. “Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.”
21. “I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”
22. “People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.”
23. “We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.”
24. “How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.”
25. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
26. “You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.”
27. “Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”
28. “When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”
Marianne Williamson Quotes On Love
29. “Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species”
30. “The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.”
31. “As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.”
32. “By affirming that love is our priority in a situation,”
33. “God is definitely out of the closet.”
34. “Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.”
35. “Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.”
36. “Only infinite patience produces immediate results.”
37. “We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.”
38. “God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.”
39. “It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.”
40. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
41. “Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.”
42. “if the train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s not your train.”
43. “Love will be our medicine.”
44. “All of a sudden, you’re not too proud to ask for help. That’s what it means to surrender to God.”
Marianne Williamson Quotes on Fear
45. “May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.”
46. “Fear comes, but fear passes.”
47. “There’s no single effort more radical in it’s potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”
48. “Your calling is what you would do whether you were paid to do it or not. Your calling is what you have to do in order to be happy. Your”
49. “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
50. “An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return.”
51. “I dedicate my work today to the furtherance of all things good.”
52. “We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.”
53. “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”
54. “If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.”
56. “I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all”
57. “In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.”
58. “The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.”
59. “Most women I know are priestesses and healers, although many don’t know it yet, and some never will. We are all of us sisters of a mysterious order.”
60. “Enlightened people don’t have anything we don’t have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don’t have anything else.”
Thought-Provoking Marianne Williamson Quotes
61. “Love merely becomes clouded over, or surrounded by mental mists.”
62. “There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”
63. “We need to display as much conviction behind our love as some have displayed behind their hate.”
64. “May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing.”
65. “He teaches us to see love as our only function.”
66. “The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.”
67. “I didn’t know that a miracle is just a shift in perception”
68. “A story, no matter how factually true, is still just a story.”
69. “Love as much as you can from wherever you are.”
70. “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.”
71. “You’ve done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let’s not call that love.”
72. “Very few of us were taught that we’re essentially good.”
73. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
74. “Peace stems from forgiveness.”
75. “There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.”
Short Marianne Williamson Quotes
76. “What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.”
77. “Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.”
78. “To surrender to God means to let go and just love.”
79. “The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment; God’s creation holds nothing against us.”
80. “I needn’t prove anything to anyone. I am blessed as a child of God.”
81. “Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self,”
82. “The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.”
83. “Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden.”
84. “I’ve heard it said that prayer doesn’t change a situation for you so much as it changes you for the situation.”
85. “What’s dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.”
86. “I free the universe from my efforts to control it.”
87. “Whether we choose to focus on the guilt in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to us.”
88. “We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.”
89. “Think something isn’t good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.”
90. “Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.”
91. “Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.”
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92. “Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.”
93. “Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.”
94. “We heal through noticing, and prayer.”
95. “Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable.”
96. “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”
97. “The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.”
98. “Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.”
99. “We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a ‘little lady’ forgets her place.”
100. “Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven.”
101. “Your human self might be in hell right now, but your divine self is literally untouched by your suffering. And your divine self is who you are.”
102. “In order to escape the illusion and find inner peace, remember that only love in a situation is real.”
103. “He reminds us that, in every situation, the love you’ve given is real, and the love you have received is real. Nothing else exists.”
104. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”
105. “Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.”
106. “Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to be doesn’t stand a chance.”
107. “It’s unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we’ve prayed to be released from.”
108. “That’s why the miracle is a shift in our own thinking: the willingness to keep our own heart open, regardless of what’s going on outside us.”
109. “Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”
110. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.”
Additional Read: Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson was born on July 8, 1952, She has written fourteen books, four of which have reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list. She is also the co-founder of the Peace Alliance, a nonprofit information and advocacy group, and the founder of Project Angel Food, a volunteer food delivery program that provides home-bound people with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses with food.
Williamson attempted to represent California’s 33rd congressional district in the US House of Representatives in 2014 but was unsuccessful.
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