Marianne Deborah Williamson is an American author, spiritual leader, politician, and activist. Profoundly inspirational Marianne Williamson quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
Famous Marianne Williamson Quotes
Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness. – Marianne Williamson
Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve. – Marianne Williamson
Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously. – Marianne Williamson
It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation. – Marianne Williamson
Take a good look at your life right now. If you don’t like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this. – Marianne Williamson
Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe. – Marianne Williamson
When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. – Marianne Williamson
With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them. – Marianne Williamson
In every moment we make a decision — whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone. – Marianne Williamson
Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs. – Marianne Williamson
The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful. – Marianne Williamson
In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth. – Marianne Williamson
We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. – Marianne Williamson
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
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another. – Marianne Williamson
Every time we’re about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let’s first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there’s still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy — and actually be heard! – Marianne Williamson
Every relationship is a gift exchange. – Marianne Williamson
Ego says, Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace. Spirit says, Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place. – Marianne Williamson
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others. – Marianne Williamson
What’s difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. – Marianne Williamson
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present. – Marianne Williamson
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious. – Marianne Williamson
The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need. – Marianne Williamson
Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system. – Marianne Williamson
Within the miraculous brew of universal creativity , all you desire already exists. Spend five minutes each morning with your eyes closed, living in that dimension. Allow images to unfold without censor. Feel yourself living the most magnificent life — a life of joy, creativity and love — as you grow inwardly into the person you need to be in order to manifest it effortlessly. – Marianne Williamson
There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you. – Marianne Williamson
Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge. – Marianne Williamson
No one is any more or any less important than you are. – Marianne Williamson
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. – Marianne Williamson
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. – Marianne Williamson
Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you. – Marianne Williamson
We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another. – Marianne Williamson
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. – Marianne Williamson
You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have. – Marianne Williamson
Love isn’t material. It’s energy… We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy. – Marianne Williamson
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that’s where humanity is now: about to discover we’re not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. – Marianne Williamson
You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first. – Marianne Williamson
Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone. – Marianne Williamson
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking. – Marianne Williamson
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving. – Marianne Williamson
We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, ‘I respect myself. I respect you. Let’s respect each other.’ – Marianne Williamson
Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. – Marianne Williamson
Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you. – Marianne Williamson
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth. – Marianne Williamson
Conscious awareness is the source of our healing…Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process. – Marianne Williamson
We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are. – Marianne Williamson
…you’re on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place. – Marianne Williamson
The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway. – Marianne Williamson
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. – Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances. – Marianne Williamson
Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be. – Marianne Williamson
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love. – Marianne Williamson
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. – Marianne Williamson
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. – Marianne Williamson
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts. – Marianne Williamson
We aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness. – Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. – Marianne Williamson
The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow. – Marianne Williamson
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player…The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart. – Marianne Williamson
Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind…In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today. – Marianne Williamson
Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are. – Marianne Williamson
Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold. – Marianne Williamson
Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have. – Marianne Williamson
The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge. – Marianne Williamson
Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet. – Marianne Williamson
It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. – Marianne Williamson
Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done. – Marianne Williamson
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love. – Marianne Williamson
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything. – Marianne Williamson
Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong. – Marianne Williamson
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. – Marianne Williamson
Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world. – Marianne Williamson
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right. – Marianne Williamson
Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are. – Marianne Williamson