We don't think it's necessary. We're pretty clear on that.
MARIANNE BICHSEL It's a very doable path to get there. The mayor does not believe that we need to go back to the vote...
MARIANNE BICHSEL It's right back where they were before. They don't have the revenue to support what they want to bui...
MARIANNE BICHSEL Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss...
PETER BICHSEL In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are const...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big pict...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will exp...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link bet...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who ar...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue un...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoug...
MARIANNE WIGGINS The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
MARIANNE MOORE If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
MARIANNE MOORE Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of ma...
MARIANNE MOORE Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
MARIANNE MOORE Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
MARIANNE MOORE God is definitely out of the closet.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
MARIANNE MOORE When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but ev...
MARIANNE MOORE Joy, has no cost.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE Superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we h...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Family... a group experience of love and support.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every hea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be on...
MARIANNE LARNED It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull p...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.
MARIANNE MOORE Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage
MARIANNE MOORE Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it lea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
MARIANNE MOORE The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fr...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, l...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characterist...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are l...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, b...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
MARIANNE VOS Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jew...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
MARIANNE MOORE I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being invo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unend...
MARIANNE WIGGINS Your self-assurance scares me.’
'That’s only because you don’t have any.
MARIANNE CURLEY All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet onc...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right colo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who coul...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. W...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' cour...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is po...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, bu...
MARIANNE MOORE I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depresse...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates m...
MARIANNE VOS Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I have to watch out for being lazy.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
MARIANNE MOORE I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as qui...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream t...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the...
MARIANNE VOS I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a v...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks r...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a crit...
MARIANNE MOORE I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despai...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it ...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the p...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
MARIANNE MOORE As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
MARIANNE MOORE There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and co...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary thi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not ex...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Candy had some nice placement. She was putting some stuff on the ball. She was hitting top spin, she...
MARIANNE BRETSCHNEIDER Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger g...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil W...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on t...
MARIANNE WIGGINS As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be fr...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
MARIANNE MOORE The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it g...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocabl...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los A...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Spirit is impervious to illness.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be complet...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civili...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian org...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted H...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit th...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Sometimes people think that calling on God means inviting a force into our lives that will make ever...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It’s easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us a...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you,” means, “Dear God, let me see this person throug...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the per...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusio...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingeri...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, whi...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuin...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pu...
MARIANNE MOORE I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it...
MARIANNE MOORE Superior people never make long visits
MARIANNE MOORE You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief
MARIANNE MOORE The spiritual path -- is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; mo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond mea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cros...
MARIANNE MOORE The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I a...
MARIANNE MOORE Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time
MARIANNE MOORE There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ...
MARIANNE MOORE We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism sh...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL I took drugs because we all took drugs.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL