Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne WilliamsonWe tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
Marianne WilliamsonThe one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
Marianne WilliamsonLiving in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
Marianne WilliamsonFrom a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
Marianne WilliamsonMy biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."
Marianne Williamson