Quotes by Peace Advocates

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

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.

Mattie Stepanek

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

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

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?

Mattie Stepanek

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

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

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

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

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