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Marianne Williamson Quotes

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

Marianne Williamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 8, 1952

Topics

Family Childhood Pain Thinking Kind

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

John Berger

Life Art Writing Story Search Wall

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

John Hughes

Sad Hate End Feel Done Movies

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Anna Freud

Space Environmental Trees Forest

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

Jeff Kinney

Amazing Hands Kind Meet Out Kids

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles

Shadow Human Breath Human Being Only

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

Simon Mainwaring

People Eye You Will Try Stage

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

Roddy Doyle

Child Sometimes Seem Cut Being

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Ronnie Montrose

Me Influence Powerful Seeing Page

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Lucan

Men Shadow Name Mighty Only Some

The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.

Judith Miller

Money Worth Pretty Most Continental

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

Jason Mraz

Work Marriage Equality World Deep

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

Jonathan Kozol

Life Live Children Training Worth