Quotes from Marianne Williamson

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

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.

Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

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

When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

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

Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves that is true.