Mattie Stepanek Quotes

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.