Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

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

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

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.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

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.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.

available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.