"I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell."

-- Nancy Mairs

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.”

Source : Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”
“So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.180, Penguin
“Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.”
“I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.”

Source : Joseph Monninger (2010). “Eternal on the Water”, p.353, Simon and Schuster
“When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.”

Source : Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”
“A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim (1992). “The Philosophy of Natural Magic”, p.169, Health Research Books
“Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.”
“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”

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