One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love… — 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
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
