Empowering Quotes by Marianne Williamson

A collection of inspirational quotes by Marianne Williamson, a spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of The Peace Alliance. Her books include "A Woman's Worth" and "A Return to Love".

"Everything we do is either
an act of love or a cry for help."

~ Marianne Williamson ~

Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

Spiritual progress is like detoxification.
Things have to come up in order to be released.
Once we have asked to be healed,
then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

In our natural state, we are glorious beings.
In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned,
slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded
by certain ideas that hold us back,
such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.
To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man.
Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman
and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman
I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore
and integrate into my experience.
In the same way, real liberation for men
means that they can explore and integrate
their feminine aspects of consciousness.
~ Marianne Williamson ~

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love,
then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love,
is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

Joy has no cost.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.


~ Marianne Williamson ~

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today,
but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion.
We are to love our enemies
that they might be returned to their right minds.

~ 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 ~

The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.

~ 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 ~

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 ~

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 ~

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see
anything in us that we don't see in ourselves.
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it.
We keep His peace by extending it to others.
Those are the keys and there are no others.

~ Marianne Williamson ~

Also see Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson