I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Marianne Williamson More Quotes by Marianne Williamson More Quotes From Marianne Williamson We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war. Marianne Williamson planets joy war Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart. Marianne Williamson heart inspirational people We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.' Marianne Williamson home attitude people If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed. Marianne Williamson forgiveness love peace The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you, it radiates from within you. Marianne Williamson spotlight becoming stars Sometimes when we don't know the answer, Marianne Williamson answers knows sometimes The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it. Marianne Williamson giving lying years The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how. Marianne Williamson different spiritual long Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. Marianne Williamson buttons situation capacity During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else. Marianne Williamson miracle challenges reality We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death. Marianne Williamson growing floating dying Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming. Marianne Williamson abundance have-faith way Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. Marianne Williamson essentials love-is reality May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home. Marianne Williamson wedding home heart I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy. Marianne Williamson gratitude simple happiness Yes, women are homemakers - and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children - and every child in the world is one of our own. Marianne Williamson home children world God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does. Marianne Williamson pick-me-up effort believe Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves. Marianne Williamson form self love-is Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. Marianne Williamson locked-up gratitude blessing There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased. Marianne Williamson good-enough wells needs