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.

— Marianne Williamson

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

— Marianne Williamson

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

— Marianne Williamson

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

— Marianne Williamson

Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

— Marianne Williamson

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

— Marianne Williamson

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

— Marianne Williamson

Whether we're forgiving our parents or someone else or ourselves, the laws of mind remain the same.  As we love, we shall be released from pain and as we deny love, we shall remain in pain.  Each of us have different fears and different manifestations of fear, but all of us are saved by the same technique: The call to God to save our lives by salvaging our minds.  'Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For love is the kingdom and love is the glory and love is the power, forever and forever.

— Marianne Williamson