Marianne Williamson Quotes

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

I think it's a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.