The Age of Miracles Quotes

“The heart’s transformation is not attained through the mind—it’s attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“To the extent that we project responsibility for a dysfunction outside ourselves, we cannot change it. Wherever the wound came from, however many years ago, its healing lies not in the past but in the present. Your subconscious will continue to trigger the wound for along as it takes- a iffy years old experiencing a five year olds pain- until you allow it to be healed.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“whatever it is you choose to think, your subconscious mind takes it very seriously and your experience will reflect your thinking.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“David stood up and said: Sorry Lichtenstein, but I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“Excitement doesn't knock at your door any less when you're older than when you're younger. It's just that when you're younger, you're more likely to open the door and let it in. With age, you start growing ambivalent about excitement. You might say that you want it, but at the same time you're not sure you have the energy for it. Yet a surefire way to diminish your energy is to deny the Ultimate energy pill, which is participation in life itself.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“[T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“God will always have the final say. And His say will always be how very much that you are loved”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“God forgives you. Your mistakes did not change the ultimate truth about you or alter the permanent nature of God's universe. Your ego is not that powerful. Truly atone for your errors, make amends where possible, and you'll be free to begin again.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“we are punished by our sins, not for them.

Your mistakes, no matter how bad you might think they were, did not emanate from your self as He created you. Thats why remembering who you truly are is the key to deliverance from the flames of self condemnation.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“It isn't the amount of our years that will determine the life we live now, but the amount of our love. Our future isn't determined by anything that happened 20 years ago, 30 years ago, or even 10 minutes ago. It's determined by who we are and what we think, right here, right now, in this moment. Almost every hour of every day, we'll find ourselves in a situation where we can be now who we weren't before. And from this newness in our being springs fresh opportunities we could never have imagined. God specializes in new beginnings.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“Durning the years when we were carelessly dismissing what we later came to see as the most important things in life, we kept crying out woefully that we were looking for meaning. All that time we were starved for meaning, we were lacking it for no other reason than we weren't ascribing meaning to the situations right in front of us! meaning isn't what a situation gives us; its what we give to a situation.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“By midlife, we're usually aware enough to understand which of our issues most need attention. We've learned where we're strong, but also where we're weak. We know what parts of ourselves to be proud of and what parts of ourselves should change. We know what our issues are. It might not be a time when we're learning new things about ourselves so much as understanding more deeply what we already know.

This is not the time to stop working on ourselves; it's the time when we've finally accumulated enough clues to help crack the case and solve the myself why and how we've kept ourselves bound for so long. Its not the time to give up and say, 'this is who I am, its too late to change.' Quite the opposite- its time to take a stand, once and for all, for your own potential. Don't worry that it took you so long to get to this point. It takes everyone this long. We know nothing until we know all the ways that we're not who we should be. Only then do we have a chance at becoming the people we've wanted to be, and God intended us to be, from the day we were born.
And for that reason alone, these are sacred years.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“Accept that God has given each of us a magnificent role to play on Earth merely because we're human; that we were born with a perfect script etched on our hearts; that its not to our personal credit, but to His greater glory, that each of us is brilliant-such are the truths that free us from the ego's lies.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“There’s a profound satisfaction in finally giving up something meaningless, for no other reason than that we did it to the max and now we’re ready to move on.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“Wherever you’ve been, and whatever you’ve done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness—a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you’ve gone through.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

“La un nivel visceral, știi că viața nu va dura o veșnicie.
Nu mai e timp pentru câte un ocol de cinci ani. Nu mai ai timp să înțelegi greșit. Nu mai e timp pentru relații care nu folosesc la nimic sau pentru a rămâne într-o situație în care simți că nu ești tu însăți.
Fiecare lecție de viață care i-a fost servită cuiva vreodată se va repeta, într-o formă sau alta, până ce o va învăța.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife