In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love, your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.

— Marianne Williamson

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.

— Marianne Williamson

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

— Marianne Williamson

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really.  Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash.  The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food.  It doesn’t give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

— Marianne Williamson

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

— Marianne Williamson

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

— Marianne Williamson

In the Christie tradition, this is the meaning of 'becoming as a little child.'  Little children don't think they know what things mean, in fact, they know they don't know.  They ask someone older and wiser to explain things to them.  We're like children who don't know but think we do.  We're meant to shine.  Look at small children.  They're all so unique before they start trying to be, because they demonstrate the power of genuine humility.  This is also the explanation of 'beginner's luck.' When we go into a situation not knowing the rules, we don't pretend to know how to figure anything out, and we don't know yet what there is to be afraid of.  This releases the mind to create from its own higher power."  

— Marianne Williamson

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. Furthermore, it is rife with judgment and blame.

— Marianne Williamson

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

— Marianne Williamson

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

— Marianne Williamson