Quotes from Marianne Williamson

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.

Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

There is a healing force within each of us, a kind of divine physician seated within our minds and in communication with every cell of our being. This force is the intelligence that drives the immune system.