People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
A handicap is only if you let it be a handicap.
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.