Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

In the quiet of this day, may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility

— 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

“Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.”

— 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

“Just because it's true, I say as often as I can in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Gardening is all about optimism.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“My courage does not depend on the weather.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“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.”

— 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

“Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others.”

— 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

“In service, there is clarity and compassion.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Today ... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

— 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

“Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?”

— 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

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

— 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

“This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."”

— 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

“Extend your hand with the strongest reach.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“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."”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.”

— 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

“An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher