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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

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

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A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.

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My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

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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.

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

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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?'

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People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,'' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.'' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

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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.

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We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

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Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

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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.

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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.

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

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