Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.

Yes, women are homemakers - and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children - and every child in the world is one of our own.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.