I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should… — 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
