Marianne Quotes
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
We 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.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
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.
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.
What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.
When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.
Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.
Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
