Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is
the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Jonathan Lockwood Huie and Mary Anne Radmacher welcome you to Simply An Inspired Life - a life of Joyful Living and Unbounded Happiness, achieved through Conscious Attention, Universal Compassion and Unconditional Thanksgiving.

Please enjoy some of our own quotable writings on this page. Then use the list and the search box in the left sidebar to browse through our large collection of inspiring quotes from authors across history.

We also invite you to check out more of our resources...

• Eight Points of An Inspired Life - the pillars of our book Simply An Inspired Life.
• Mary Anne's article Courage Doesn't Always Roar.
• Mary Anne's article The Tigger Factor.

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Quotes by Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search,
but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

 

Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- 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

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- 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

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

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

Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
- 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

Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.
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

I will dance a little. I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What power there is in our service
when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- 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

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

Sharpen your pencil as you create the story of your life.
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

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

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

CALM IN CHAOS
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

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

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

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

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

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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice.
It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Sayings by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I unconditionally forgive everyone for all hurt
that I have ever experienced in the presence of their actions.
I unconditionally forgive myself for everything that I have ever done,
said, or thought that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The real lessons from the book of life are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Invite Life to Dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For everything observed or experienced,
each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.
A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselves
about what has happened or is happening.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Writing is a dance with the uncertainties of language.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I celebrate my free-will, and choose my life-path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Training yourself to live in the present -
without regretting the past or fearing the future -
is a recipe for a happy life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is a mirror for anger, which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Am One With Spirit and All Creation -
I give thanks for the unity of all creation
and for everything that has brought me to this moment.
I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Have NO EXPECTATIONS.
Life will not meet your expectations.
Choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This being grown up isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The True Surprise is that So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be an Original, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The ad agency's name for Hell is "Las Vegas."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that when you live joyfully,
you radiate your light into the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make a conscious choice to live a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whether we allow external events to shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love,
selflessness, and kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take charge of your life! You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The answer is twelve monkeys, what's the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The God of Children and Fools:
There once was a man way up high,
who sat on his chair in the sky.
he called down to fool us,
and said he would rule us,
until we woke up bye and bye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose to Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know the power of breathing deeply and slowly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today Is My Day To Laugh At Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Welcome the Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am responsible for my thoughts, my beliefs, and my actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am but a grain of sand on the beach of life.
My footprints in the sands of time soon wash away.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to dance lightly with life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are all immigrants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I love everyone, unconditionally, at all times, exactly as they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I Honor myself,
I am confident of my being,
and I am gentle with myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like a butterfly, I am reborn to strong wings and bold colors.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I ride the storm - cheering wildly.
I gather strength from the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your essence be the nectar of the open blossom of your joy.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- jonathan lockwood huie

Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can train ourselves to view life from more joyful perspectives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I love myself as I truly am.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's work only if I say it's work, but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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