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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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- 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
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- 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
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
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- 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
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
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Loving is the most unmitigated
and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.
- 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
And yes, I loved.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- 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
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- 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
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- 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
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Movement energizes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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