Quotes from Marianne Williamson

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

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.

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. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)