Disability Quotes
Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.
That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?
Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.
I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.
I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.
The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.
Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI
It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right to leave your lane, and to do things in the same way that other people do.
Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us.
With determination, it is possible to block out the negative things and enjoy the positive ones, despite the cons. Most importantly, it is possible to dance through everything pernicious.
Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.
Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.
For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is.
Healing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.
Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.
Next to God, Family is the best thing.
I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.
Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.
Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.
Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.
Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren’t guy and girl. We weren’t damaged and terminal. We were just now.
Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.
It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.
The world isn't built with a ramp.
Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.
A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.
If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.
Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.
There's no question how strong you are." Gabe rested his fingers on her shoulders and pressed into the tight muscles. She didn't push him away. "But being strong doesn't mean you have to be alone.
She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed.
The more love and support your child receives, the richer his or her life becomes, and nurses can certainly add to the circle of love surrounding your child.
An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” - Bell Hooks
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.
There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.
When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.
I look out onto this world I'm in and hope that one day all people will be accepted and valued as they are.
So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.
Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.
At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.
..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within theemployer...don’t look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.
