“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”- Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the Sunshine and you will not see the Shadows.”- Helen Keller
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.”- Helen Keller
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”- Christopher Reeve
“Most people see what is, and never see what can be.”- Albert Einstein
“You’re not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.”
“Embrace the unique way your child is blooming – even if it’s not in the garden you imagined.”
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”- Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes God doesn’t change your situation because he’s trying to change your heart.”
“Children with special needs inspire a special love.”- Sarah Palin
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”- Helen Keller
“It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” –Stephen Hawking
“I have a Disability yes that’s true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you.” –Robert M. Hensel
“I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn’t let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness – I want to turn my disability into ability.”-Susan Boyle
“I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.”- Bethany Hamilton
“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.”- Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”- Helen Keller
“If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.”- Elaine Dalton
“Promise me you’ll always remember… you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved move than you know.”- Christopher Robin
“You are not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able to by the abilities you have.”
“Embrace the unique way your child is blooming- even if it’s not in the garden you imagined.”
“I don’t need easy. I just need possible.”-Bethany Hamilton
“We are put in situations to build our character… not destroy us.”-Nick Vujicic
“I’m officially disabled, but I’m truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.”-Nick Vujicic
“Abled does not mean enabled. Disabled does not mean less abled.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.” –Stevie Wonder
“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.” –Martina Navratilova
“When you hear the word ‘disabled,’ people immediately think about people who can’t walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can’t find joy in life and are bitter.” –Teri Garr
“With tremendous burdens often come enormous gifts. The trick is to identify the gifts, and glory in them.”- Maya Shetreat-Klein
“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.”
“They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same.”- Kurt Cobain
“You can only make a difference by being different.”- Rick Warren
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” –Dr Seuss
“Never let anyone dis your ability to make the right choices regarding your child’s disabilities.” – Lisa Thornbury
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” –Muhammad Ali
“My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.” –Stephen Hawking
“I do not have a disability, I have a gift! Others may see it as a disability, but I see it as a challenge. This challenge is a gift because I have to become stronger to get around it, and smarter to figure out how to use it; others should be so lucky.” ― Shane E. Bryan
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”- Helen Keller
“There is only one way to look at things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”- Pablo Picasso
“Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.”-Jessa Gamble
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”-Stephen Hawking
“The worst thing about a disability is that people see it before they see you.”- Easter Seals
“People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities which they choose to live.”-Barack Obama
“Know me for my abilities, not my disability.”-Robert M. Hensel
“Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.”-Stevie Wonder
“Disability is natural. We must stop believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Because that’s not true . . . Having a disability doesn’t stop me from doing anything.”-Benjamin Snow
“We, the ones who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.”- Robert M. Hensel
“The severity of one’s disability does not determine their level of potential. the greatest barriers that persons with disabilities have to overcome are not steps or curbs, it’s expectations.”- Karen Clay
“Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor’s monuments and statues are when a young person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.” – Bill Shorten
“The battle to find a workplace that’s wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who’s going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.” – Stella Young
“We think we know what it’s all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don’t expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.” – Stella Young
“Enable the Disabled; Translate Disability into Ability; Capability, a winning Opportunity-Indeed a Reality”- Dr Veena Kumari
“One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.”-Douglas Adams
“It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I’m not crazy about using.”- Marlee Matlin
“People with disabilities have abilities too and this is what this course is all about, making sure that those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.”- Mary McAleese
“When you focus on someone’s disability you’ll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.”- Yvonne Pierre
“The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.” – Warwick Davis
“Concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.”– Stephen Hawking
“The message I’ll share…is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.”- Clay Aiken
“When everyone else says you can’t, determination says, ”YES YOU CAN.” –Robert M. Hensel
“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal-spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot’s body.”-Sloane Crosley
“People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.”-Aimee Mullins
