Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.

Marianne Williamson

The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.

Marianne Williamson

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Marianne Williamson

When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

Marianne Williamson

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

Marianne Williamson

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Marianne Williamson

The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

Marianne Williamson

Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.

Marianne Williamson

I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.

Marianne Williamson

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

Marianne Williamson

Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.

Marianne Williamson

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

Marianne Williamson

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

Marianne Williamson

We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the miracle, while an open heart brings it forth....In every moment, we make a choice between the heavenly awareness of our connection to all living things, or the hell of the delusion that we are separate and alone. The mind will manufacture according to our choice; whichever we choose, we will seem to experience.

Marianne Williamson

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

Marianne Williamson

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

Marianne Williamson

Today, the reason we haven't found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this world can take us home. Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, ... 'We will light up like lamps, and the world will never be the same again.'

Mikhail Bakunin

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Mikhail Bakunin

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

Mikhail Bakunin

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

Maria Cantwell

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Martin Jacques

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

Martin Lawrence

For me [in my stand-ups] I do what is from the heart. I do what I relate to, what I can talk about, things that I can define. I don't try to talk about things just because they might be a popular subject. I talk about things I know about.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

...we must realize that a vast majority of believers are still searching and will continue to search for the being who is the "source of human good." Those who seek with clear heads and sincere hearts will in some measure find. Of course the true seeker will realize that there is no one way to find God. To be sure, there are many possible ways of finding God.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve... You only need a heart full of grace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

Martin Luther King, Jr.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.