Top 1281 Quotes & Sayings by Marianne Williamson - Page 2

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.

Spirit is impervious to illness.

God is definitely out of the closet.

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

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

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.

I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.

Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

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.

The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.

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.

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.

Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

Pray for Trump's sanity and clarity, because his power to cause real damage to our country is enormous.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

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.

The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old - from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British - even the largest do fall.