Marianne Williamson quotes

“When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.”

— Marianne Williamson

“With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.”

— Marianne Williamson

“You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.”

— Marianne Williamson

“All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.”

— Marianne Williamson

“I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.”

— Marianne Williamson

“When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.”

— Marianne Williamson

“While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.”

— Marianne Williamson

“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.”

— Marianne Williamson

“God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.”

— Marianne Williamson

“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.”

— Marianne Williamson

“My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.”

— Marianne Williamson