Marianne Williamson: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.”

“We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”

“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.”

“In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”

“Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.”

“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.”

“… available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.”

“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”

“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.”

“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”

“Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)”

“Always seek less turbulent skies.
Hurt. Fly above it.
Betrayal. Fly above it.
Anger. Fly above it.
You are the one who is flying the plane.”

“Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.”

“Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”

“To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player… The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.”

“The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.”