Marianne Williamson Quotes

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.

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.

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.