"The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it would be like because you can't stop yourself from hearing your own breath or your own heartbeat. You can not remove sound entirely from your life. You can get a sense of what being blind is like by closing and covering your eyes which provides a source of empathy because we can all project ourselves to that. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't."

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Source : Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

Richard Masur

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”

Source : 1949 Letter, 26 Oct.
“Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.”
“Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.”
“The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.”
“Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.”

Source : William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.99, Milkweed Editions
“In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.41, New Directions Publishing
“As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.”
“She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

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