Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes

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

Tonight, late, when I'm still not done with the day but must comply with sleep, I can whisper, "There was done a little good today. Today I changed myself and the world, just a little. And yes, I loved." Most days, that is enough.

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

In service, there is clarity and compassion.

Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.

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

Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

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

When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.

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

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.

I will close my eyes and leap.

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.

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There is no small act of kindness.

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

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

Courage doesn't always roar.

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.

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

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

Live as if this is all there is.

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

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

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

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.

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.)

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.

Discover the tools to build your own vision.

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

A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

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.

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.

Extend your hand with the strongest reach.

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.

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.

The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.