Disability Defined Quotes & Sayings

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind. — Albert Einstein

Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges. — Laozi

Family didn't give up. Family kept going — Lexi Blake

Outside of school, though, we were often defined by our disabilities. We were "handicapped" - a bit like a species. Often when people have a disability, it's the disability that other people see rather than all the other abilities that coexist with their particular difficulty. It's why we talk about people being "disabled" rather than "having a disability." One of the reasons that people are branded by their disability is that the dominant conception of ability is so narrow. But the limitations of this conception affect everyone in education, not just those with "special needs." These days, anyone whose real strengths lie outside the restricted field of academic work can find being at school a dispiriting experience and emerge from it wondering if they have any significant aptitudes at all. — Ken Robinson

In her dreams, she was always riding Cruise. — Kate Lattey

So whenever any kind of disaster strikes, or something goes seriously "wrong" - illness, disability, loss of home or fortune or of a socially defined identity, breakup of a close relationship, death or suffering of a loved one, or your own impending death - know that there is another side to it, that you are just one step away from something incredible: a complete alchemical transmutation of the base metal of pain and suffering into gold. That one step is called surrender. — Eckhart Tolle

When I grow, I'm going to be my mother. — Melina Marchetta

No amount of belief makes something a fact. — James Randi

Easy, love. Easy. — Kit Rocha

You have made it dark enough to see me and quiet enough to hear me. — Naoko Stoop

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation. — Basil Bunting

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. — William Empson

Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. ... But autism ... is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an over-expression of the very traits that make our species unique. — Paul Collins

She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay. — Alex Flinn

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift — Dan Brown

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up. — Jayne Mansfield

The only thing I'm sure of is wherever you are is where I belong. — Josh Lanyon

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can. — Becca Fitzpatrick