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Lucky Man: A Memoir

A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox</br

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“If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Children, Optimism

“I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, humanity

“I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, accepting, struggles

“Family is not an important thing, it's everything.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Family, Love, Friendship

“Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Patience, Negativity

“If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Doubts, Laughter, red flags

“The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Expectations, Acceptance, Happiness

“Our challenges don't define us. Our actions do.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Challenges, Suffering, actions

“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.com

Tagged: Spirituality, God, Suffering

“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.com

Tagged: Pain, Suffering, God

“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.com

Tagged: enjoy life, Past, Future

“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.com

Tagged: Learning, Pain, Suffering

“What other people think of me is not my business.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Reputation, Self-Esteem

“Happiness is a decision.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, decision, Optimism

“A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: Creativity, Hard Work

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”

— Michael J Fox, amazon.com

Tagged: excellence, Perfection, God

“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.com

Tagged: dignity, Self-Esteem