I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.
Interpretation
Live actively and purposefully instead of passively waiting for life to end.
This quote reflects the idea that one should embrace life with intention and awareness rather than merely existing and allowing time to pass. Mattie Stepanek encourages a proactive approach to living fully, highlighting the importance of making the most out of each moment, even in the face of mortality.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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.
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?'
How shall I sum up my life?_x000D_ I think Iβve been particularly lucky.
You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.
You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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