If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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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 
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- 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
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Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- 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
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
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
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
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
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- 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
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- 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
We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- 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
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations
and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate
and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response
to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live boldly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And yes, I loved.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live as if this is all there is.
- 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
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- 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
Movement energizes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- 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
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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