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Your self-assurance scares me.’
'That’s only because you don’t have any.


Marianne Curley

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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