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" Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. "
Mattie Stepanek
Unity
Collaboration
Teamwork
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" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "
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" Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. "
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" Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy. "
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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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Gift
Day
" 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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" 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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" 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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" Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. "
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Nature
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" Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong. "
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Confidence
Black And White
Strength
" You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life. "
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" 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. "
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Cup
Calm
Words
" A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. "
Christopher Reeve
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" My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy. "
Mattie Stepanek
Muscular
Disease
Very
" The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me. "
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Me
Easy
Way
" 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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Grow
Growing Old
Growing Up
" 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?' "
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Me
Sometimes
Think
" 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
" 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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Loved
You
Trees
" 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. "
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I Am
Week
Way
" I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. "
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Peacemaker
Poet
Remembered
" Remember to play after every storm. "
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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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God
Peace
World
" 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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" 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. "
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Better
Life
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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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Go
God
" 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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You
Heart
Love
" I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think. "
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Think
Feelings
Want
" We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us. "
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Father
" The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. "
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" No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. "
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