Quotes by Marianne Williamson

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The power of love is perfect. This force is creative, self-organizing, healthy, self-healing, and abundantly available. The power of fear is incalculable, destructive, violent, disease-causing, and deficient. It presents itself as a rogue, distorting your true being and making you behave in ways that are contrary to your true self.

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The fact that we can sometimes feel broken is part of our deep humanity, not a weakness of character. If there is a weakness, it is more the fear of actually seeing our suffering and our resistance to dealing with it more wisely.

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There is only one real problem in life: turning your back on love.

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Like physical pain, mental pain has its own cause. And the latter is not considered a disease, rather it plays the role of a kind of messenger - a messenger that is too often ignored.

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The right question is not: "Why are people starving, why is there genocide or extreme poverty?" Rather, the real question is, "Why do we allow these things to happen?"

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There is nothing more joyful than a child's laughter and nothing more wonderful than a child's smile. After all, we were all such children once upon a time. We came to earth with a receptivity to joy.

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Some of our harshest judgments, some of our most malicious attacks, are made before we have any chance to think. We will send a text or email as a spontaneous response. We say things we regret later. We make decisions that we only realize in retrospect that they were ultimately to our detriment.

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It is obvious to most of us that when we buy a car, even if it is the best car in the world, we still need to take care of it and do several things to maintain it. At the same time, for some mysterious reason, it is often not so self-evident that we should care for our relationships in the same way as this car. Any individual with sound judgment values ​​a deep human connection more than a car, yet we have to face how much more attention people pay to taking care of their "things" than to nurturing their relationships.

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We don't always get to choose whether or not to suffer, but we can decide whether or not our suffering was in vain.

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With love, I am like most women I know: either I can't talk about anything else, or I don't want to hear about it; depending on my mood at the moment. If I've just tuned into the topic, it seems more important than anything else. But if I don't feel like thinking about it, it can be almost annoying. But one thing always remains true, regardless of my opinion; love is a great mystery.

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It is true that every love relationship is different; but almost never as it is depicted almost like a caricature in the advertisements. Compared to the idyll of a couple walking hand in hand on the beach, reality can be many times harsher and a thousand times more painful.

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Love is not a game for cowards.

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It is a great emotional effort to learn to open our heart again, if life and lived experiences have closed it. What we thought was just a temporary defense mechanism can be engraved in us over many, many years and turn into rejecting behavior patterns.

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Guilt, remorse, shame, physical pain, grief, failure, loss can all be excruciating. At the same time, no matter how difficult it is to bear them, they can open the way to enlightenment: conscience, forgiveness, humility, penance, appreciation, gratitude and faith.

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Always remember that your behavior pattern is not necessarily the same as that of others. Some of us go in circles, while others go straight ahead.

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The universe is God's handwriting.

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Dear God, please free me from false desires and take away my pain. Take away my compulsive self and show me who I really am! Dear God, please give me a new beginning! Free my heart from its shackles so that I can finally live a freer life! Amen.

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Spiritual growth is a wonderful process if you allow it to happen. An inner journey that leads from one realization to the next, and includes many useful realizations that always occur when we are ready to receive them.

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Sometimes we have to release our anger first before we can forgive the other person.

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Fear is an emotional tyrant that has no intention of freeing its slaves. He will keep repeating what is necessary to confuse your thoughts and mislead your desires.

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Your beauty already exists in God's mind, and the more you see it as something that already exists, the faster it will manifest itself.

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Dear God, please bless the food in front of me. Let your spirit permeate the food and fill me with your love. Grant that this food will nourish me so that I can care for others. Let me never forget the hungry. Dear God, please think of them too. Amen.

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Love, only love, creates miracles.

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Sport is not some kind of punishment that you have to suffer in order to be slim. Rather, it is a part of the right relationship with your body - you give it in return for what it does for you. Your body wants to move.

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The fact that you are sad does not mean that something is wrong. It just means you're sad. It just shows that you are human. Regardless of what exactly you feel, the feeling is simply there.

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Your emotions are not your enemies, they are your friends. They can always teach you something, even the painful ones.

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Sadness handled with dignity turns into peace, but only if you first allow yourself to experience it.

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Proficiency doesn't mean reaching a point where nothing can go wrong. Rather, it means that you reach the state in which you are able to tolerate and change everything that goes wrong.

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When we let our own lights shine, we allow others to do the same. And as we free ourselves from fear, our presence automatically frees others.