Quotes from Marianne Williamson

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

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.

If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

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.

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.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

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