Marianne Quotes

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

Our deepest need is to be seen.

God is definitely out of the closet.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation.

Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'

Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

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.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

There never was a war that was not inward.

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?