Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes

I will close my eyes and leap.

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.

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

Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

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.

Work as smart as you are able.

What if we just acted like everything was easy?

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

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.

Choose with no regret.

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

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

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

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

A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.

Ask yourself to slow down.

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

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.

My courage does not depend on the weather.

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

In service, there is clarity and compassion.

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

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

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

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

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

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others.

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

In whose wonder do you get to participate today?

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

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

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

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

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

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

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

Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.

Some days are simply meant for playing.

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