Disability Quotes Quotes & Sayings

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true. — Selena Gomez

The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and yet, it is a reality which most people deny and try to escape from. — Wolf Wolfensberger

Billionaires' working hours are twenty-four seven. They don't wait till Monday. — Sophie Page

The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences. — Tanya Masse

The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven. — Emma Goldman

A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you. — Brian Spellman

I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward. — Nikki Rowe

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it. — Solange Nicole

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything. — Jean Seberg

I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body. — Meinrad Craighead

It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,
than the limitations society tries to place upon them. — Robert M. Hensel

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor. — Edvard Munch

I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love. — Douglas Wilson

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. — Nikki Rowe

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? — Melina Marchetta

Skateboarding isn't a phase it's a way of life ~ Rehabiliskate — Nikki Rowe

I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know. — Nikki Rowe

My ability is greater than my disability. — Nikki Rowe

Empathy isn't about you, understanding another person isn't about you, feeling how another person feels isn't about you ... step outside of your own skin for a change. Respect another person because they are who they are; not because the other person is just like you. Your inability to understand, your inability to empathize, is not a fault on the part of the other person. It is in fact your own disability that you are choosing to live with. — C. JoyBell C.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you. — Beth Moore

His mother was quiet for a moment. "I get out of bed every day because I never know where I'll meet with one of God's small graces. Maybe I'll be cleaning a room and find a dollar bill. Maybe I'll be at the gas station on a slow night, and I'll get to sit and be paid to watch the sun set. Or maybe I just won't hurt much that day. What a miracle each day is. To see the spirit of God move across the face of our lives like he did the waters in the darkness of creation. — Jeff Zentner

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. — Roy H. Williams

Fire will save the Clan ... you never understood, did you? Not even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. And I doubted it myself, when fire raged through our camp. Yet I see the truth now. Fireheart, you are the fire who will save ThunderClan. You will be a great leader. One of the greatest the forest has ever known. You will have the warmth of fire to protect your Clan and the fierceness of fire to defend it. You will be Firestar, the light of ThunderClan. - Bluestar — Erin Hunter

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. — Napoleon Hill

I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. — David Levithan