Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes

I rest in the light of forgiveness.

Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.

If i had known ... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.

I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward with festive anticipation. I embrace this holy moment and assert, "Now. This moment is the moment to love, the moment to serve, the moment to seize the legacy instead of the small. Now. Now I will live large, love boldly, reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope."

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.

Choose with no regret.

What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?

Work as smart as you are able.

Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be ... because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!

In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.

Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible.

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.

In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.

Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

Speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly ...

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.

Living eulogy.
she danced.
she sang. she took.
she gave.
she loved.
she created.
she dissented. she enlivened.
she saw. she grew. she sweated.
she changed.
she learned. she laughed.
she shed her skin.
she bled on the pages of her days,
she walked through walls,
she lived with intention.

There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.

At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.

In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow ... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

In whose wonder do you get to participate today?

A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?

A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.

Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.

Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.

Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.

USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Dare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission.

Dare to dream of your great success.

And just dance a little.

When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'

What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.

Today is a gift I honor by fully living it.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness.

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

When I want to be bold about my movement ... I for sure do not call it exercise!

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.

Know the best and highest choices for health and more often choose those things.

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.

May your season shine with delight and surprise.

One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.

Ask yourself to slow down.

The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.

What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.

Just another cold, misty morning inviting, "want to go again?"

At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?"

I will move with the wind.

Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.

Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.

Who were you before you put yourself last.

How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?

LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.

Gardening is all about optimism.

Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.

We listen. We listen. We move. We sit. It rains. The sun comes out. (there stands a friend) We listen. We laugh. We share. We sit. We dance. It rains. There stands a friend. We listen. We share. We sit. We dance. The sun comes up. There. I stand, a friend.

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

In your days - things like this happen to you ... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired - but I don't want you to miss this."

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.

Be guided by the stars which you place well on the canopy of your night sky.

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

Live as if this is all there is.

There is no small act of kindness.

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE ... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.

Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.

I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.