When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. Marianne Williamson More Quotes by Marianne Williamson More Quotes From Marianne Williamson You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be. Marianne Williamson moments energy wish There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise. Marianne Williamson paradise moments giving If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world. Marianne Williamson knows heart world Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas. Marianne Williamson agendas forgiving people Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace. Marianne Williamson smart pain hope The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful. Marianne Williamson joyful enjoy reason Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone. Marianne Williamson behind-you behinds angel Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world. Marianne Williamson forgiveness inspirational love There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts. Marianne Williamson heart world The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe. Marianne Williamson positive-attitude light real The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope. Marianne Williamson hard-work integrity past Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it. Marianne Williamson causes matter character It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know. Marianne Williamson old-you age too-late Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along." Marianne Williamson cancer couple over-you You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility. Marianne Williamson perspective fields inspirational If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God. Marianne Williamson stability emotional people Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't. Marianne Williamson pain hurt play Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing. Marianne Williamson forgiveness inspirational love I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally. Marianne Williamson great-things ifs enough We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened? Marianne Williamson creativity imagination love
