Mattie Stepanek Quotes

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Mattie Stepanek

Profession : Poet

Birth : July 17, 1990

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

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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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The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me.

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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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I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

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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.

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

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Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.

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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.

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I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

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God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

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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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My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

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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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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.

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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.

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I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

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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.

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