As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational
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
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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A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- 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
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
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- 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
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
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Loving is the most unmitigated
and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live as if this is all there is.
- 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
Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live boldly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
I will give my body to my love and celebrate
that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves.
We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point.
This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- 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
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- 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
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose in ways that support your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.
- 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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- 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
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 my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- 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
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
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
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Movement energizes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And yes, I loved.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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