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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.
- Marianne Williamson
Related topics: Love Inspirational
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
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.
- Marianne Williamson
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.
- Marianne Williamson
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
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.
- Marianne Williamson
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- Marianne Williamson
Personal transformation can and does have global effects.
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
- Marianne Williamson
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
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.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
We need less posturing and more genuine charisma.
Charisma was originally a religious term,
meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired."
It's about letting God's light shine through us.
It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy.
It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper.
Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright.
We're letting our own light shine.
- Marianne Williamson
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
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