Mattie Stepanek Quotes

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• Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Teamwork

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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.

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  Encouraging, Beautiful, Storm

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

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  Forever, Needs, Happens

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• If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

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  Giving, Complaining, Thanks

  FaceBook post by Mattie Stepanek from Oct 29, 2012

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• I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

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  Dying

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.184, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Remember to play after every storm.

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  Fun, Play, Storm

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

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  Far Away, Right Now, Seems

  Mattie J. T. Stepanek (2002). “Hope through heartsongs”, Hyperion Books

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• My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

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  World, Missions, Spread

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• Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

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  Sunset, Color, Rainbow

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• We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Soul, Different

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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.

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  Fighting, People, Inner Beauty

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• It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.

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  Song, Heart, Helping Others

  "'Mattie' Stepanek -- poet laureate of muscular dystrophy" by Myrna Oliver, www.sfgate.com. June 25, 2004.

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• I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very still ...It is so easy to listen to my song. When my eyes are open and I am so Busy and moving and busy, If I take time and listen very hard, I can still hear my Heartsong. It makes me feel happy. Happier than ever. Happier than everywhere And everything and everyone In the whole wide world. Happy like thinking about Going to Heaven when I die. My Heartsong sounds like this: I love you! I love you! How happy you can be! How happy you can make this whole World be.

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  Meaningful, Song, Moving

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• You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

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  Lying, Ashes, Persons

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• Do not breathe simply to exist.

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  Breathe

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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.

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  Inspirational, Memories, Past

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• Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

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  Glasses, Looks, Each Day

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• I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

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  Hard Work, Angel, Thinking

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• A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.

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  Song, Heart, Talking

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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.

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  Views, Heaven, Different

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek (2010). “Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait in Poetry”, p.150, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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.

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  Beautiful, Caring, People

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• I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.

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  Letting Go, Opportunity, Special

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• I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

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  Want, Philosopher, Poet

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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.

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  Giving Up, Pain, Don't Give Up

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