Quotes For the Duchenne-Parent to Live In. Love. Strength. By: Misty VanderWeele. Cover Photo By: Jenna VanderWeele

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1 Quotes For the Duchenne-Parent to Live In Love & Strength By: Misty VanderWeele Cover Photo By: Jenna VanderWeele

2 Book Inspired By: My son, Luke, who continues to be my bearer of light, even after death; and my daughter, Jenna for continuing sharing Luke s light through photography. Misty, You ve brought such light into my life & have helped me to find my footing in raising my son Colin. Thank you for teaching me that I have that same light within me. Cindy Studlack Misty, the fog of grief will guide and protect you, think of it as Luke s breath surrounding you with love and a desire for your heart to be healed enough to carry on with all you do for others. The DMD world would be lost without you my friend. Christine Davies My dear friend, U always have seen the light at the end of the tunnel. You and your son are my heroes. -Ed Mabbott Duchenne doesn t give much to the families who are living with it. When it gave you an inch, or even less, you and Luke took your mile together. That s a legacy currently inspiring an entire community, and something to be proud of forever. -Julie Stewart

3 Dedication To those living the journey of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy And Beyond You are the light for the Duchenne-Children of the WORLD! Cover Photo By: Jenna VanderWeele

4 In a moment everything can change. In a moment anyone can inspire you. In a moment anything is possible. We Are Marshal Sometimes being strong means not holding back the tears, but letting them fall. When life gives you a thousand reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

5 Walking with a friend in the dark is much better than walking in the light alone. Helen Keller The happiest people don t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Always believe something wonderful is about to happen. Worry won t stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good.

6 We are told to let our light shine and if it does, we don t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don t fire cannons to call attention to their shining. They just shine. Dwight L. Moody You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it. Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength -Ralph Sockman We can t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. -Oprah

7 The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle Count your Rainbows not your thunderstorms Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather that as you think it should be. Wayne Dyer Its okay not to be okay as long as you are not giving up!

8 No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. Shalom Aleichem This is the life we have now, we must hold onto that, that s what's REAL! Life is a gift, never take it for granted. Be happy for this moment. For this moment is your LIFE!

9 The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you re going to live long enough to wish you had. Thomas S. Szasz Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. I respect those who smile in trouble, gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. Leonardo Da Vinci Enjoy yourself. These are the good ole days you re going to miss in the years to come.

10 Strength doesn t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn t -Rikki Rogers If you re going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill In the end, some of your greatest pain becomes your greatest strengths. Where there is no Struggle, there is no Strength.

11 When it rains look for Rainbows, when its dark look for stars. Its not easy, but worth it. Now repeat that everyday! Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson Strength means recognizing that it is impossible to be strong all the time Sally Franser

12 If you can t make them see the light, make them feel the heat. -Ronald Reagan There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. -Rumi True strength is holding it together when everyone else would understand If you fell apart.

13 I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. -Mother Teresa courage: Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -Mark Twain Love like there s no tomorrow. Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.. -Lin Yutang

14 It is during the darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle Onassis You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt Life is like a rainbow, you need both the rain and the sun to make the colors appear.

15 Some days you will be the light for others, and some days you will need some light from them. As long as there is light. There is HOPE, and there is a way. -Jennifer Gayle

16 The light in me sees the light in YOU. -Misty VanderWeele Thank you for giving me your most valuable gift of your time. My hope is you have gleaned some clarity and that your life is somehow brightened with each quote I picked especially for you. Please know I am here for you and your Duchenne family. We are in this together. WE can do something about it!

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