Marianne Williamson Quotes

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.
Marianne Williamson

Fear, Powerful, Light

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Forgive, Easy

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, God, Lord

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamson

Life, Focus, Wrong

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness, Important, Healing

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Marianne Williamson

Waiting, Yourself, Maturity

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Fear, Give, Same

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson

God, Nothing, Small

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Today, Revenge

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson

Past, Understand, Forgive

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

Good, Joy, Happens

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson

Work, Power, Heart

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson

Fear, Love, Learned

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Men, Woman

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson

Revolution, Personal, Goes

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Marianne Williamson

God, Fighting, Light

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Marianne Williamson

True, Everything, Goal

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
Marianne Williamson

Blessed, End, Feeling

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson

Idea, Presence, Mass

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Mind, Heart

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Marianne Williamson

Moving On, Spiritual, Self

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson

Power, Lost, State

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.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Past, Present

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
Marianne Williamson

Spiritual, Living, Path

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Real, Everything

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 8, 1952

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