America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image