Top 1281 Quotes & Sayings by Marianne Williamson - Page 3

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.

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.

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

To me, drone use is a moral issue.

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

Gay men in a very real way created my career.

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Joy, has no cost.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

When America does what's right, it's such a light on this planet.

Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.

I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'

The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.

I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!

I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news... At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we'll talk.

If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

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

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.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

Christ is born into the world through each of us.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.

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

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

The press creates a caricature.

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?