Better-self Quote by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set…

— Tony Judt

I was never crippled until I lost hope.

— Nick Vujicic

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

— Joy Browne

Childhood was great - anything could be bruised, broken or torn apart and it healed in a moment

— Melchor Lim

How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in…

— Lyman Abbott

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or…

— Alice Walker

Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be…

— Junethea Crystal Centeno

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though…

— Banana Yoshimoto

When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid…

— Scottie Pippen

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me…

— Silas Weir Mitchell

I think that it takes a special person to still feel like themselves after losing a limb.

— Simone Missick

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so…

— Michael Greger