Mattie Stepanek Quotes, Thoughts and Images

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

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

My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

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

Remember to play after every storm.

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

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

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.

Do not breathe simply to exist.

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.

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.

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.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.

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.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

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

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.'

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.