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.Collection: Appreciation
Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. 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.Collection: Eye
Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.Collection: Imagine
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.Collection: Happiness
A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?Collection: Bird
May your season shine with delight and surprise.Collection: Blessing
In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.Collection: Greatness
At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Smart
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.Collection: Perspective
There is no small act of kindness.Collection: Kindness
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.Collection: Motivational
Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.Collection: Lying
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.Collection: Eye
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.Collection: Heartache
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.Collection: Letting Go
It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.Collection: Dream
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.Collection: Life Changing
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.Collection: Eye
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.'Collection: Fun
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Sleep
Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.Collection: Stories
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.Collection: Lonely
The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.Collection: Honor
Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.Collection: Weed
I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."Collection: Christmas
In your days - things like this happen to you... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired - but I don't want you to miss this."Collection: Tired
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.Collection: Strength
See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.Collection: Dance
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.Collection: Time
Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.Collection: Workout
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.Collection: Giving Up
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.Collection: Self
I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.Collection: Heart
Dare to dream of your great success.Collection: Dream
I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Learning
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.Collection: Compassion
Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!Collection: Love
Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you: celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own. Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.Collection: Loyalty
I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.Collection: Grace
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.Collection: Generosity
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.Collection: Hands
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.Collection: Challenges
We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.Collection: Laughing
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.Collection: Long Distance Relationship
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.Collection: Self
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.Collection: Workout