Marianne Williamson Is Quotations

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.

Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.

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 love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That's what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.

By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.

Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach.

Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.

Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.

Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

Only God's Thoughts - or love - is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating.