Mary Anne Radmacher quotes:

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

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

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

Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.

In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.

Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance. Find the questions that only you know how to ask and The answers that you are content to not know.

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.

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.

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

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

One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.

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.

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.

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

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

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

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

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.

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

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

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

I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

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

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.

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

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

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

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.

Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.

In service, there is clarity and compassion.

I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.

My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.

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

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.

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

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

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.

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

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."

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

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.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.

This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love.

I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

And just dance a little.

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

Choose with no regret.

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.

I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.

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

Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow

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

I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.

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.

Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

There is no small act of kindness.

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

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."

A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.

A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.

An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."

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

As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"

Ask yourself to slow down.

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

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

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

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

Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!

Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.

Change of any sort requires courage.

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

Courage doesn't always roar.

Discover the tools to build your own vision.

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

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

Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.

Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.

Extend your hand with the strongest reach.

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

Gardening is all about optimism.

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old beginning? Maybe now's the time to establish a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.

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

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

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

I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.

I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?

I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.

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."

I rest in the light of forgiveness.