Marianne Quotes
Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.
Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.
Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.
I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming.
I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.
My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.
What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.
Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.
Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.
You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.
Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.
The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.
The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come