Marianne Williamson Quotes

“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong'.”

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

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

“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.”

“No one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.”

“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”

“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”

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

“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.”

“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.”

“It takes courage to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”

“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”