Mary Anne Radmacher
The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.Collection: Motivational
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.Collection: Opportunity
I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward with festive anticipation. I embrace this holy moment and assert, "Now. This moment is the moment to love, the moment to serve, the moment to seize the legacy instead of the small. Now. Now I will live large, love boldly, reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope."Collection: Stars
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!Collection: Cute
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.Collection: Gratitude
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 EnlivenedCollection: Love
See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)Collection: Cancer
Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Light
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.Collection: Dream
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.Collection: Deep Life
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.Collection: Love
I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.Collection: New Relationship
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.Collection: Friendship
As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"Collection: Inspirational
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.Collection: Cancer
It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.Collection: Long Distance Relationship
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.Collection: Dream
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.Collection: Love
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.Collection: Joy
I rest in the light of forgiveness.Collection: Light
My courage does not depend on the weather.Collection: Weather
And just dance a little.Collection: Farewell
Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old beginning? Maybe now's the time to establish a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.Collection: New Year
Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.Collection: Heart
Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.Collection: Memories
When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.Collection: Friendship
This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.Collection: Gratitude
This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.Collection: Valentines Day
Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."Collection: Quitting
I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.Collection: Sweet
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.Collection: Friendship
My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.Collection: Dream
My husband melted my heart the day he asked me, "Can I participate in your wonder?" In whose wonder do you get to participate today?Collection: Marriage
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.Collection: Cute
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.Collection: Light
One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.Collection: Innovation
What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?Collection: Kind
I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.Collection: Motivational
A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.Collection: Fire
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.Collection: Heart
If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.Collection: Heart
An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."Collection: Mean Girls
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.Collection: Friends
Live as if this is all there is.Collection: Ifs
Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.Collection: Decision
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.Collection: Believe