Quotes from Marianne Williamson

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.

Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.

War is just an effect, not a cause.

Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.

The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than wounds we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.