Marianne Quotes

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

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.

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

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

Omissions are not accidents.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.

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

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.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Bless more; blame less.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

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

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

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

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

Superior people never make long visits.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

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.

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.