Marianne Williamson Quotes

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

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.

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

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.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job, ’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.

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

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.'

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

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

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.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.

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.

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

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

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

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

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

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

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

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

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