“Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Pessimism, Optimism
“Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Right, Choices, Decisions
“I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.comTagged: Control, Mind, Body
“There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: enjoy life, live in the moment, present, Future
“Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Moving Forward, setbacks, Optimism
“If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.”— Michael J. Fox, amazon.comTagged: Past, present, Future
“Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more tha…”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Optimism, enjoy life, Pessimism
“Our challenges don't define us. Our actions do.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Challenges, Suffering, actions
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: dignity, Self-Esteem
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: excellence, Perfection, God
“If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without…”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, God
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.comTagged: Happiness, Acceptance, Expectations
“A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Creativity, Hard Work
“The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: purpose, Goals, Passion
“What other people think of me is not my business.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Reputation, Self-Esteem
“Every failure I have considered my own, but every success has been shared.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Failure, Success, Hard Work
“The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Choices, Destiny, Decisions
“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Learning, Pain, Suffering
“It seems to me that the quality of a moment in time is not always a reflection of the moment in and of itself—what happens before and what happens after are often what give it its savor.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: enjoy life, Past, Future
“My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Spirituality, God, Suffering
“Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Friendship, Love
“Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: enjoy life, Books, Reading
“Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Control, university, Education, Learning
“I didn't take a single photograph while I was there, but that's not all that unusual for me [...] The act of lifting up the camera and positioning it between me and the object of my interest separates me from the experience.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: live in the moment, enjoy life, Experience
“What's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Past, present, Future
“If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Hard Work, Success, Time
“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, silver lining, Opportunity