Marianne Williamson

One really easy way to kind of measure how you're doing is

Then your life gets to be good and happy.

I call myself a hopeful pessimist.

In other words, I see things going wrong all around me, but I remain hopeful.

And that's partly because I believe we don't know a tenth of what's actually happening, partly because I think human beings are a wonderful species.

We focus all the time on the things we've done wrong, and there have been many of them.

But we should be more grateful for and aware of, not in a vain way, but in a humble way for what we can achieve at our best, which is extraordinary and is attested to by so many historical examples.

And that gives one hope.

So don't despair.

And don't say it's all so much bigger than anything I can do.

I often hear, you know,

Everything seems to be going wrong.

But what can I do?

The world is such a huge place and I'm so small.

And this world is so tiny in respect to the cosmos.

Why does it even matter?

I think that is the left hemisphere speaking.

Because what the left hemisphere is saying is things are important because of their size, measurement.

What we want is more, more quantity, not quality.

And so stop thinking in terms of quantity.