Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
Marianne WilliamsonOur divine perfection - not registered by the physical eye but only by the heartโs knowing - is who we truly are. Our mortal imperfections - registered by the physical senses - are not who we truly are. Yet we keep trying, in love, to find each otherโs perfection within the world of imperfection. And it simply is not there.
Marianne WilliamsonWe 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 WilliamsonThink of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.
Marianne WilliamsonIf we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
Marianne WilliamsonWe think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
Marianne WilliamsonThere is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.
Marianne Williamson