"Weâ€™ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesnâ€™t. â€¦ I want to live in a world where we donâ€™t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning."

-- Stella Young

#Morning Quotes #Lying Quotes #Names Quotes

“If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.”
“By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”
“The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.”
“You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.”
“Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.”
“What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined”
“If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever." - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae”

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