the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.