I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. Mattie Stepanek Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy. Mattie Stepanek Read Quote
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. Mattie Stepanek Read Quote
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. Mattie Stepanek Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. Mattie Stepanek Read Quote
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. Mattie Stepanek Read Quote
