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Mattie Stepanek
American
Poet
Born:
Jul 17
,
1990
Died:
Jun 22
,
2004
God
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
Strength
Wonderful
Unity
Collaboration
Wonderful Things
Achieved
Teamwork
Things
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.
Mattie Stepanek
Life
Beautiful
Moving On
You
Celebrate
Matter
Bad
Find
Seem
Something
Recover
Through
Always
Got
How
Times
Get
May
Storms
Them
Should
Rough
Rough Times
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
Mattie Stepanek
Inspirational
Hope
Future
Thoughts
Memories
Inspire
Build
Past
Others
Lifetimes
Share
Come
Which
Special
Bridge
Keep
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.
Mattie Stepanek
Sad
Beautiful
Angry
Happy
People
Feelings
Other
Caring
Way
Those
Poetry
Share
Beautiful Way
Also
Them
Help
Expressing
Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
Mattie Stepanek
Sad
Live
Sad Things
Forever
Happen
Things
Things Happen
Need
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie Stepanek
Life
Work
Day
History
Celebrate
Every Day
Action
Living
Every
Must
Knowing
Becoming
While
Deed
Present
Remember to play after every storm.
Mattie Stepanek
Remember
Every
After
Storm
Play
It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
Mattie Stepanek
Life
Beautiful
You
Better
Matter
All Religions
Religions
Give
Something
Take
Greater
How
Pray
Than
Just
Common
Common Belief
Bigger
Us
Belief
Now
Here
People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.
Mattie Stepanek
People
Matter
Beauty
Fighting
Our
Gifts
Over
Mosaic
Look
How
Same
Different
Us
Each
Inner
Inner Beauty
Need
I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'
Mattie Stepanek
Life
God
Me
Sometimes
Think
Say
Never
Question
Disease
Died
Then
Hard
Hard Life
Who
Why
Why Not
Sibling
If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.
Mattie Stepanek
God
Peace
World
Fighting
Live
World Peace
Extra
Harmony
Once
Would
Would-Be
Magic
About
Could
No-One
Wishes
Like
Talk
Genie
Him
Came
Disease
Intended
Any
Just
Stop
Again
Ask
Us
Things
Second
Muscular
Two
You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.
Mattie Stepanek
Life
You
Lie
Down
Another
Person
Ashes
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
Mattie Stepanek
Words
Calm
Think
Weapons
Something
Drink
Over
Cup
Should
Wars
Fought
Bombs
The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.
Mattie Stepanek
Doctor
Teenager
Month
Way
Kid
Week
Never
He
New
Make
Said
Am
Years
Five
Hit
Did
Going
Double
Lived
Here
Last
Two
Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.
Mattie Stepanek
Life
Me
You
Celebrate
Sometimes
Pain
Live
Hey
Says
About
Give
Had
How
Still
Wakes
Up
While
Breathe
Body
Hard
My life mission is to spread peace to the world.
Mattie Stepanek
Life
Peace
World
My Life
Mission
Spread
My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.
Mattie Stepanek
Rare
Very
Disease
Form
Muscular
There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
Mattie Stepanek
Happy
Whatever
Like
Because
Makes
Person
Heaven
Different
Eternally
Views
Fully
Many
Each
Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.
Mattie Stepanek
Gift
Opportunity
Feelings
Others
Share
Just
Then
Expressing
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
Mattie Stepanek
Old
Think
Define
Without
Up
Going
May
Grow
Grow Up
Growing
Growing Old
Growing Up
Differently
I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow.
Mattie Stepanek
God
Family
Me
Tomorrow
Looking
Big
Lasted
Side
Earth
Respiratory
Would
Minute
Born
Angels
Looking Forward
Another
Because
Without
Arrest
Friends
Friends And Family
Going
Big Things
Literally
Happen
Forward
Keep
Right
Thing
Things
People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.
Mattie Stepanek
Me
You
People
Will
King
Pain
Nice
Saw
Everywhere
Say
People Say
Come
Annoying
Lot
Oprah
Up
Really
Larry
Larry King
You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.
Mattie Stepanek
You
Trees
Kids
Kind
Running
See
Know
Because
Around
Climbing
Doing
Just
Loved
Bikes
Really
Used
Hard
Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.
Mattie Stepanek
Sad
Forever
Relatable
Sad Relatable
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