Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them! — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor… — 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
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.' — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind… — 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
I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our divine perfection - not registered by the physical eye but only by the heart’s knowing - is who we truly are.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever… — 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
