Disability
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Quotes about disability.
[edit] Pain
- But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar 1991
- Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
- Native American proverb
- We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
[edit] Attitude
- I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
- A positive attitude might not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. --Herm Albright
- Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
[edit] Disability as a Concept
- “Disability is not a brave struggle or ‘courage in the face of adversity.’ Disability is an art. It’s an ingenious way to live.”
- Neil Marcus
- Not only do physically disabled people have experiences which are not available to the able-bodied, they are in a better position to transcend cultural mythologies about the body, because they cannot do things the able-bodied feel they must do in order to be happy, ‘normal,’ and sane….If disabled people were truly heard, an explosion of knowledge of the human body and psyche would take place.
~Susan Wendell, The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
- “Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.”
