Cerebral Palsy: Top 10 Inspirational Quotes
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RCM’s Top 10 Quotes Related to Cerebral Palsy
- “There are times during this journey that are so challenging and you may feel lost and discouraged. These are times when “showing up” for the day and having an open mind and a prayer on your breath are the best tools you have to work with. It’s very humbling and most of us parents have been there. May love and hope hold you until this time passes.” Michele Shusterman
- “With tremendous burdens often come enormous gifts. The trick is to identify the gifts, and glory in them.”-Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein
- “I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.” Natalia Vodianova
- “Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It’s about understanding that she is exactly the person she is supposed to be. And that, if you’re lucky, she just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.”-The Water Giver
- Oh, my goodness, when you’re a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and – or Down’s Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there’s a bit of a shock you’re going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve. Joni Eareckson Tada
- What pains you and why? Be gentle with yourself. Be gentle with others. Be willing to discover life, love and freedom beyond your pain even if you don’t know how to get there. Some of the greatest blessings brought to this earth have emerged through people moving through and seeing through their pain, and working to ease the pain of another in a similar situation.” Michele Shusterman
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
- “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
- “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world” – Dr. Seuss
- “Look past the disability and see the person. If you have questions, ask them. Be patient because speech may be hard to understand, but carry on a conversation. Just because they’re difficult to understand doesn’t mean they don’t have something to say.” Dr. Gary Edwards
SHARING IS CARING!
