Marianne Williamson

I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.

Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.

The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

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

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.