{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Yvonne Pierre","tags":["acceptance","disability","down-syndrome","inspirational","unconditional-love"],"id":3043,"author_id":"Yvonne+Pierre"},{"text":"An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.","author":"Charisse Montgomery","tags":["caregiver","disability","parent","parenting","special-needs"],"id":4477,"author_id":"Charisse+Montgomery"},{"text":"..A disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within theemployer...Don’t look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["disability","eyes","prejudice"],"id":6496,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"While our life remains more chaotic than not, we continue to land on our blistered feet, drag each other out of the quicksand, beg for forgiveness as we wander out of the doghouse, and dig for the humor beneath our grief. So our family, four-pawed members included, continues to bound forward celebrating our canine connection and sharing hope with all who need healing.","author":"Donnie Kanter Winokur","tags":["adoption","disability","inspirational","parenting","service-dogs"],"id":7531,"author_id":"Donnie+Kanter+Winokur"},{"text":"I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don't say your friend's retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don't be mean to people.","author":"Lauren Potter","tags":["working hard","disability","me "],"id":10470,"author_id":"Lauren+Potter"},{"text":"Theres a remarkable amount of strength residing in those who move forward without being able to physically move. Ones that carry the weight of illness or a disability, they battle wars most know nothing about. They are the true warriors of the world, the ones who have every reason to quit but never do.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["brave","bravery","courage","disability","free-spirit","hope-in-healing","illness","illness","inner-strength","inspiration","inspiration-through-illness","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","positive","for-illness","for-strength","strength","warrior","warrior-spirit","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":15409,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me….","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["disability","gratitude","hope","optimism"],"id":16154,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","believer","believers","cripple","crippled","disability","disable","disabled","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","religion","religious","sane","sanity","satire","superstition","superstitious"],"id":16415,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... But a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.","author":"Andrew Greeley","tags":["writing","woman","disability "],"id":34541,"author_id":"Andrew+Greeley"},{"text":"A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.","author":"Brian Spellman","tags":["disability","disabled","suicide","suicide-attempt"],"id":43541,"author_id":"Brian+Spellman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":154,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}