Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes

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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.

Mary Anne Radmacher
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.

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
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.

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

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
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.

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

Mary Anne Radmacher
Just another cold, misty morning inviting, "want to go again?"

Mary Anne Radmacher
I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.

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
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

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
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
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
Lean forward into your life...
catch the best bits and the finest wind.
Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit
and see how dramatically that small lean
can change your life.

Mary Anne Radmacher
I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

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

Mary Anne Radmacher
When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'

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

Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.

Mary Anne Radmacher
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

Mary Anne Radmacher
Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.

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

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

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
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible.

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
Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

Mary Anne Radmacher
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

Mary Anne Radmacher