“Our fear is free-floating. We’re afraid this isn’t the right relationship or we’re afraid it is. We’re afraid they won’t like us… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“I surrender my focus on the past that I might dwell fully in the present. May my mind not wander into the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom… — 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