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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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
CALM IN CHAOS
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live boldly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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