Marianne Williamson

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Always play like an underdog.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?