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Mattie Stepanek
Mattie Stepanek
American Poet
Born: Jul 17, 1990
Died: Jun 22, 2004
God Life Me People Think You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. Mattie Stepanek
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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
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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
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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
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. Mattie Stepanek
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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
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Remember to play after every storm. Mattie Stepanek
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever. Mattie Stepanek
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