Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I’m haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiving ourselves for all the woulda-shoulda-couldas in life, and sometimes forgiving others for actions that we feel undercut or undermine our good,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must… — 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
I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull… — 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
