The Gift of Change Quotes

“The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

“Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren’t open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn’t missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“It helps to ask ourselves why we choose to play so small when we don’t have to. Belief is powerful, and whatever we believe, we will subconsciously make manifest. So why do we hold on to core beliefs about ourselves that are so demeaning? When we ask that question, the answers emerge: “My family told me it wasn’t okay to think I was a big deal.” “I thought people wouldn’t like me if I ‘had it all.’” “I thought it might hurt my father’s feelings if I made more money than he did.” Yet whatever pain we might experience at others’ negative reactions to our spreading our wings, is nothing compared to the pain we cause ourselves by clipping them. At this time on the planet, no one can feel good about withholding their magnificence. Expressing your full potential is not just your right; it’s your responsibility. As long as you keep thinking in limited terms, disbelieving in the possibility of infinite possibility in your life, then you will never experience the miracles God has in store for you. You will deny His gifts, taking on the ego’s servitude instead. In a world such as this, fear is often the path of least resistance. If you want a miracle, you have to consciously claim it. And for everyone out there who might say, “How dare you?” there are at least two more who will say, “Thank you for showing me how.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“I’ve noticed in myself that if something small and ultimately meaningless has gone wrong—I can’t find the file I left on top of my desk, my daughter failed to do what I asked her to do before going to a friend’s house—I can easily get rattled. But if someone calls to inform me of a serious difficulty—someone has been in an accident, or a child is in trouble—I notice a profound stillness come over me as I focus on the problem. In the former case, my temptation to become frantic does not attract solutions, but rather hinders them. There is nothing in my personal energy that invites help from others, nor do I have the clarity to think through what I need to do next.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“It’s like avoidance behavior in therapy—wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of course we want to avoid the pain. But by doing so, we inevitably cause more of it.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“We can’t change other people’s thinking, but in fact we don’t need to because all minds are joined.* All we have to do is change our own thinking, and as we do, the world will change with us.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“En nuestro sueño, el dolor que no puede olvidar cae gota a gota sobre el corazón humano y en nuestra desesperación, contra nuestra voluntad, viene la sabiduría a través de la tremenda gracia de Dios.”
― Marianne Williamson, Don del Cambio, El: Una Guia Espiritual para Transformar Su Vida Radicalmente (The Marianne Williamson Series)

“That’s why, as Gandhi said, we must be the change we want to see happen in the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“The more things are happening on the outside, the more important it is to find that stillness on the inside.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“And every change is a challenge to remember what’s true. Love is the only absolute reality, which never changes and never dies. Dwelling in that which does not change, while things around us are changing all the time, is our key to inner peace.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“On the level of true solution, love is the answer no matter what category of human experience. According to Mahatma Gandhi, love can heal all social and political as well as personal relationships.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“You get bitter or better.” I want to be like her in that sense; I want the negative to fall away, like a ball that has been thrown to me but that I don’t have to hold onto. Even when we are victimized, we usually made some mistakes we need to take a good look at.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“We are here because we have a mission: to be the love that is missing in a loveless world and thus reclaim this darkened world for light.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“Love extended is the key to happiness; love withheld is the key to pain.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“The happiest times of my life have been when I was more involved in something I was doing for others than in something I was doing for myself.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“Our capacity to change our minds is the greatest gift that God has given us, and it is also the most powerful.* He is present within us, in any moment, to help us return our minds to love.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“When we spend more time working to view life through loving eyes, and less time trying to figure out why we’re unhappy to begin with, then our lives transform much faster.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“Practice kindness, and you start to become kind. Practice discipline, and you start to become disciplined. Practice forgiveness, and you start to become forgiving. Practice charity, and you start to become charitable. Practice gentleness, and you start to become gentle.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“I know that for me, someone constantly telling me I’m not okay is hardly what helps me improve.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“It is not those who judge and condemn us, but rather those who bless and forgive us, who awaken us from our lower nature and return us to our better selves.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“A supportive smile, an e-mail, the smallest gesture can make the difference in helping another person believe in himself or herself. From a material perspective, what we give away we lose. But from a spiritual perspective, only what we give away do we get to keep.* When we’re more generous with our support for others, the universe itself shows more support for us.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“For whatever reason people may need to project their own anger and guilt on you, you don’t have to accept it if it’s not yours.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“In remembering the truth of where we came from, we become more open to the truth of who we are.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“To change our lives for the better, the first thing we have to do is stop projecting our ego-based sub-selves all over the place. Leading with Me the depressed, Me the insecure, Me the angry, and Me the frightened is not exactly the psychological equivalent of putting your best foot forward.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“In a world that seems split in two between fear and love, our greatest power lies in sharpening our own focus. Some things in the world today are very, very dark; what the world needs now is more people who are working for the light.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“Every situation comes bearing a gift: a chance to become who we really want to be and to live the lives we really want to live.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“Everything that happens is part of a mysterious educational process in which we’re subconsciously drawn to the people and situations that constitute our next assignment. With every lesson we’re challenged to go deeper, become wiser and more loving. And whatever our next step is, the lesson awaits us wherever we are.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“There are only two core emotions: love and fear. And love is to fear as light is to darkness: in the presence of one, the other disappears. As we shift our perceptions from fear to love—sometimes in cases where it’s not so hard and ultimately in cases where it takes spiritual mastery to do so—we become miracle workers in the truest sense. For when our minds are surrendered to love, they are surrendered to a higher power. And from that, all miracles follow.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“To achieve a miraculous experience of life, we must embrace a more spiritual perspective. Otherwise, we will die one day without ever having known the real joy of living. That joy emerges from the experience of our true being—when we detach from other people’s projections onto us, when we allow ourselves permission to dream our greatest dreams, when we’re willing to forgive ourselves and others, when we’re willing to remember that we were born with one purpose: to love and be loved.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

“Crossing the bridge to a better world begins with crossing a bridge inside our minds, from the addictive mental patterns of fear and separation, to enlightened perceptions of unity and love. We’re in the habit of thinking fearfully, and it takes spiritual discipline to turn that around in a world where love is more suspect than fear.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life