Mary Anne Quotes & Sayings

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. — Anne Rice

As we were talking, a social worker came in with a questionnaire. Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to correct them) have time for some questions? They were doing a study and wanted to see if she might be a fit. — Will Schwalbe

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? — Philippa Gregory

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Some days are simply meant for playing. — Mary Anne Radmacher

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. — Mary Anne Radmacher

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis. — Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no small act of kindness. — 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

Know the best and highest choices for health and more often choose those things. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Today is a gift I honor by fully living it. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Did your patron specify a motif? Usually I do a standard Virgin Mary from the waist up, and in this case I will throw in Babe Jesus for free, since you have come all this way. — Anne Fortier

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I hoped that Mary Anne, Claudia, Stacey, and I - the Baby Sitters Club - would stay together for a long time. — Ann M. Martin

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." — Mary Anne Radmacher

When I want to be bold about my movement ... I for sure do not call it exercise! — Mary Anne Radmacher

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.' — Mary Anne Radmacher

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony. — Mary Anne Radmacher

The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs. — Mary Anne Radmacher

In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — 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

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy. — Raina Telgemeier

Begin each day as if it were on purpose. — Mary Anne Radmacher

May your season shine with delight and surprise. — Mary Anne Radmacher

The streets were more empty than usual - everyone who had someone was probably at home, cuddling them up, waiting for the bombs to fall or the shooting to start or the diseases to spread or just for the chips in their heads to catch viruses, melt, and drip out of their brains. — Mary Anne Mohanraj

In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

In whose wonder do you get to participate today? — Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage doesn't always roar. — 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

See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining. — Mary Anne Radmacher

She wondered what he'd make of the murder. "Well, well," he would say, "veddy bad. But would it be better if we did not know about it? No. Certainly not. And if we know, must we not do something about it? Certainly. If only to pray. — Mary Anne Kelly

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

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — 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 point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters. — Mary Anne Radmacher

It is the human condition to ask questions like Anne's last night and to receive no plain answers," he said. "Perhaps this is because we can't understand the answers, because we are incapable of knowing God's ways and God's thoughts. We are, after all, only very clever tailless primates, doing the best we can, but limited. Perhaps we must all own up to being agnostic, unable to know the unknowable. — Mary Doria Russell

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Play as often as you can. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first. — 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

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?" — Mary Anne Radmacher

I rest in the light of forgiveness. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice. — Mary Anne Radmacher

If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level. — Romano Prodi

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

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Choose in ways that support your dreams. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

You've seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning. — Mary Doria Russell

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

If i had known ... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves! — Mary Anne Radmacher

This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for him. He was very young. He knew very little of life. He saw beauty but he did not feel any true passion. How could he? He did not know. He had not really encountered the force of beauty's opposite."
"Are you more cynical now, then?" she asked him.
"Cynical," he frowned, "No, not that. I know that there is an ugly side of life-and not just human life. I know that everything is not simply beautiful. I am not a romantic as this boy was. But I am not a cynic either. There is something enduring in all of life, Anne, something tough. Something. Something terribly weak yet incredibly powerful ... — Mary Balogh

Who were you before you put yourself last. — 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

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Grey's OK on a man,' says Mary-Anne. 'Silver fox and all that.' Ruth notices that Frank doesn't seem to mind this description. She also muses that there isn't a female equivalent to 'silver fox'. 'Grey-haired old bat' doesn't cover it somehow. — Elly Griffiths

Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness. — Mary Anne Radmacher

When I was first at court and he was the young husband of a beautiful wife, he was a golden king. They called him the handsomest prince in Christendom, and that was not flattery. Mary Boleyn was in love with him, Anne was in love with him, I was in love with him. There was not one girl at court, nor one girl in the country, who could resist him. Then he turned against his wife, Queen Katherine, a good woman, and Anne taught him how to be cruel. — Philippa Gregory

Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give.
Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it.
And now I think I have said sufficient. — Anne Bronte

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.) — Mary Anne Radmacher

May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Ah, now my pet, you'll be callin' me, Ma. Me gynecologist calls me Mrs. McClung," Charlie's mother instructed a blushing Marian. From "A Good Girl — Mary Anne Edwards

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Choice impacts virtually every element of our life. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Then men were not dependent upon women after all, as she had thought - women were dependent upon men. Boys were frail, boys cried, boys were tender, boys were helpless. Mary Anne knew this, because she was the eldest girl among her three young brothers, and the baby Isobel did not count at all. Men also were frail, men also cried, men also were tender, men also were helpless. Mary Anne knew this because her stepfather, Bob Farquhar, was all of these things in turn. Yet men went to work. Men made the money - or frittered it away, like her stepfather, so that there was never enough to buy clothes for the children, and her mother scraped and saved and stitched by candlelight, and often looked tired and worn. Somewhere there was injustice. Somewhere the balance had gone. "When I'm grown up I shall marry a rich man," she said. — Daphne Du Maurier

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

Louisa seemed the principal arranger of the plan; and, as she went a little way with them, down the hill, still talking to Henrietta, Mary took the opportunity of looking scornfully around her, and saying to Captain Wentworth,
'It is very unpleasant, having such connexions! But I assure you, I have never been in the house above twice in my life.'
She received no answer, other than an artificial, assenting smile, followed by a contemptuous glance, as he turned away, which Anne perfectly knew the meaning of. — Jane Austen

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

Love overcame reason...I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened. — Carolyn Meyer

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary. — Mary Anne Radmacher

There are women that men marry and there are women that men don't," Anne pronouned. "And you are the sort of mistress a man doesn't bother to marry. Sons or no sons."
"Yes," Mary said. "I expect your right. But there clearly is a third sort and that is the woman that men neither marry or take as their mistress. Woman that go home ... alone for Xmas. And thats seems to be you my dear sister. Good day. — Philippa Gregory

If you lack inspiration simply begin...inspiration will follow. — Mary-Anne O'Connor

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

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

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life. — Mary Anne Radmacher

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Speak quietly to yourself & 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 ... — Mary Anne Radmacher

Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Lucy gripped her chilled glass of orange and raspberry juice. When Rebecca talked about Austen, she'd mostly mentioned Mr. Darcy or Mr. Knightley. She hadn't really thought of the doe-eyed, pale-skinned heroines.
On the screen, Anne Elliot walked down a long hallway, glancing just once at covered paintings, her mouth a grim line. Lucy thought Jane Austen would start the story with the romance, or the loss of it, but instead the tale seemed to begin with Anne's home, and having to make difficult decisions. Maybe this writer from over two hundred years ago knew how everything important met at the intersection of family, home, love, and loss. This was something Lucy understood with every fiber of her being. — Mary Jane Hathaway