Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
Marianne WilliamsonWe can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamsonthe 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.
Marianne WilliamsonJoy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne WilliamsonCalling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you couldn't possibly have anything deep to say, and you probably hang out in California too much - and we know that no one in California reads books or has any serious thoughts!
Marianne Williamson