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Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- 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
And yes, I loved.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- 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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- 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
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- 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
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- 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
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- 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
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?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- 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
The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- 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
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.
- 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
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I want to be bold about my movement ...
I for sure do not call it exercise!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- 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
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not a mess.
It's a physical manifestation of
a wonderfully complex ability to
assess and compartmentalize information.
- 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
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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