Handicaps Quotes

“Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests.
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.”
― John Mortimer, The Summer of a Dormouse

“Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.”
― Edward Hoagland, In the Country of the Blind

“If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“31. The human body seems indestructible when we are young. However, it is incredibly fragile and must be care for if it is to serve us for a lifetime. Too often, the abuse it takes during early years (from drugs, improper nutrition, sporting injuries, etc.) becomes painful handicaps during later years.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Once I realize that my greatest resources are cleverly hidden in the disguise of my many handicaps, I have finally discovered the resources that I thought could only be found in my greatest strengths.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Each child with special needs such as this does not come into the world in order to make our lives difficult and make us suffer. They each come into this world for a reason and have their secret inner voice. It remains to us to offer our love; to 'bear one another's burdens'; to experience a collective humbling — to realize, that is, that we are not as powerful and important as we think; and to try to lighten that person's burden and understand their language. These children are better at speaking the language of God.”
― Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia

“It is our handicaps, whatever the nature of them might be that steel us against the shallowness of the world and keep us transparently authentic. As such, we should wish for more of them, rather than deny those which we have.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Whatever handcuffs the soul,
I have brought here.”
― Jane Hirshfield, Ledger: Poems