Essentializing Disability Quotes & Sayings

the author of Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering About the Body's Journey Through Life. — Dan Buettner

Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm. — Marcus Aurelius

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life. — Gail Honeyman

Miracle centered gospel has reduced humans to the level of animals. — Sunday Adelaja

Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have been raised in a world where information is deemed far more important than imagination. Adults replaced dreams with discipline when they were finally ready to grow up and be responsible for their lives. Whether this contrast was reinforced on an assembly line, in a cubicle, or in a classroom, the surest path to acceptance in society is accepting standardization. And we more than willingly, relinquish our uniqueness. — Erwin Raphael McManus

Never let the cloud of anxiety spread shadows of doubt on your inner peace and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends - an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels - and it is that - comes from the distance he sees between himself and the storytelling, the hole that has ripped open between the here and the there. — David Levithan

Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier."
"Like what?"
"Like love, Groceries. Like pure divine love. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great story. I've always been much more of a listener. — Emun Elliott

As the flattery of friends corrupts, so often do the taunts of enemies instruct. — Augustine Of Hippo

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men? — Sophie Swetchine