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A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

Marianne Williamson

Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Love Miracle Place Situation Yourself
Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Connection Divine Mindset Ocean Ourselves Philosophy Shine Sun Wave
Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Darkness Patience Shine Sun Time
Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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Children Happiness Mindset Wrong
God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
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Electricity God Lamp
Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Fear Forgiveness Love Mental Peace Thinking Transformation
It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Courage Discover Endurance Live Ourselves Pain Sharp
If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Darkness End Light Yourself
For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Embrace Home Person Rejection Truth Yourself
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Mindset Return Revenge Thinking Violence
Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Big Change Embrace Ideas Possible Thinking Yourself
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Avoid Big Endurance Face Problem Sorrow
Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Bad Character Responsibility Wound Yourself
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Form Love Ourselves
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness – all karma is burned.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Action Burn Consequence Forgiveness Karma
You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Permission Play Service Shine Small World Yourself

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

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A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

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