Marianne Williamson Quotes

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.