Marianne Williamson was not only an author but a spiritual teacher, an inspirational speaker, and a believer in the potential for good and greatness in the world.
The entrepreneur, teacher, and life coach gave several impactful speeches. She also published several books on spirituality and fulfilling potential.
These are some Marianne Williamson quotes you can learn from as you continue your journey toward allowing your light to shine in your world.
Marianne Williamson Quotes About Love
"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
“Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren’t open to see it, we miss out."
“Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven."
“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us."
"Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul."
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
"The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”
"The way of the miracle worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love or a call for love."
"Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die."
"Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul."
"Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved."
"A woman who cannot honor her own feelings will not find them honored by anyone else."
"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."
"Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it."
"But our fear is not our ultimate reality, and it does not replace the truth of who we really are."
"Who among us hasn’t missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another?"
"Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world."
“It helps to ask ourselves why we choose to play so small when we don’t have to."
“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”
"The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften."
"To experience love in ourselves and others is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us."
"Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world."
Iconic Marianne Williamson Quotes
“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.”
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."
"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong."
"Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task."
"We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes."
"If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace .”
“Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic."
"Expressing your full potential is not just your right; it’s your responsibility."
"The truth is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.”
"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves."
"America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up."
"We want to avoid the pain. But by doing so, we inevitably cause more of it.”
Motivational Marianne Williamson Quotes
"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."
"As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
"If you want a miracle, you have to consciously claim it."
"Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve."
“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.”
“The government isn’t holding us back, or hunger or poverty, We’re not afraid we’ll get sent to Siberia. We’re just afraid, period.”
"Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself."
"Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved."
"Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive."
"Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again."
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."
"Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others."
"Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it."
"Fear is an illusion."
Marianne Williamson Quotes From Her Books
"In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart." - 'A Return to Love'
“Much of traditional religious imagery has represented women as inferior, even evil. It is only an enlightened spiritual worldview that reveals both men and women in all our true glory.” - 'A Woman's Worth'
"No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer, we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world." - 'Illuminated Prayers'
“You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.” - 'A Woman's Worth'
"When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again."
- 'A Return To Love'
“We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.” - 'A Return To Love'
“Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.”- 'A Return To Love'
“We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.” - 'A Woman's Worth'
“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”- 'A Woman's Worth'
"Available people are the ones who are dangerous because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy." - 'A Return To Love'
“What we do not claim remains invisible." - 'A Woman's Worth', Marianne Williamson
"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love." - 'A Return To Love'
"The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle." - 'A Return To Love'
“A woman who cannot honor her own feelings will not find them honored by anyone else.” - 'A Woman's Worth'
"When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.” - 'A Return To Love'
“We don’t know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls." - 'A Woman's Worth'
"May I not be tempted to doubt the light that lights the entire world. Illumine the earth and save the world. Thank You, Lord.” - 'Illuminata'
“We aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value." - 'A Return To Love'
"They’ll throw tomatoes; they’ll lie about us and try to discredit us. When we rise, they’ll try to undermine us. But when they do, we’ll remember the truth and bless our enemies and find strength in God.” - 'A Woman's Worth'
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” - 'The Shadow Effect'
"The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls." - 'The Gift Of Change'
“There is nowhere you need to go to find God, for God is within you." - 'Illuminata'
"Whatever pain we might experience at others’ negative reactions to our spreading our wings, is nothing compared to the pain we cause ourselves by clipping them." - 'The Gift Of Change'
"Fear in your mind produces fear in your life.” - 'A Return To Love'
"The only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep." - 'The Gift Of Change'
“We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a ‘little lady’ forgets her place.” - 'A Woman's Worth'
"As long as you keep thinking in limited terms, disbelieving in the possibility of infinite possibility in your life, then you will never experience the miracles God has in store for you." - 'The Gift Of Change'
“May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing.” - 'Illuminata'
"Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.” - 'The Gift Of Change'
"The process of personal transformation — the true work of spiritual growth, whether couched in religious terms or not, is the only antidote to the pernicious effects of society’s backlash against genuine female empowerment.” - 'A Woman's Worth'
“The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down." - 'The Gift Of Change'
“That’s what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love,” - 'A Return To Love'
"Belief is powerful, and whatever we believe, we will subconsciously make manifest." - 'The Gift Of Change'
"Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety, and trauma are literally all imagined. That is not to say they don’t exist for us as human beings. They do." - 'A Return To Love'
