Mary Anne Radmacher Quotes - Page 6

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.

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

Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.

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

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.

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

RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.

Choose in ways that support your dreams.

Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love.

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.

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

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.

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

Change of any sort requires courage.

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

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

Gardening is all about optimism.

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.

Intentions are a lot like seeds. You shove them into the ground, and every once in awhile, you water them. Largely, the seed does most of the work on its own. If, on one hand, you were digging the seed up several times a day to see what progress was being made, the seed would not take purchase in the soil. On the other hand, if you completely ignored it, giving no water or nourishment to the soil, the seed might not thrive.