Martin Pistorius Quotes

No one seems to consider that even people who are thought to be intellectually impaired can change as they grow older.

However fearful I am, when I contemplate the possibility that someone might finally realize I'm here, I can feel the wings of a bird called hope beginning to beat softly inside my chest.

Deep down I know, of course, that I no longer need to lose myself in fantasy because I'm living life at last. But I'll always be thankful for my imagination because I learned long ago that it was my greatest gift: it was the key that unlocked my prison and allowed me to escape, the door through which I entered new worlds and conquered them - the place where I was free.

I could see neither fascination nor delight on their faces, and I wondered if it was possible to get so used to joy that you stopped noticing it?

I'd been put into a box long before, after all. Each of us has. Are you the "difficult" child or the "histrionic" lover, the "argumentative" sibling or the "long-suffering" spouse? Boxes make us easier to understand, but they also imprison us because people don't see past them.

It's right to say that people fall in love. We don't glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we'll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.

Women seem to think they go on diets in order to feel happier, but I know from experience that this isn't true. In fact, I can safely say that the less women eat, the grumpier they get.

There's a moment every morning when I wake up and I don't remember," Mark's mother said. "I feel so light inside, so free.

At times it felt confusing to be surrounded by people, utterly alone and yet aware that God was my companion.

I would like you all to stop for a moment and really think about not having a voice or any means to communicate," my computer voice says. "You could never say, 'Pass the salt' or tell someone the really important things like 'I love you.' You can't tell someone that you're uncomfortable, cold, or in pain.

I know so much about other people's expectations and so little about my own.

There is salt and sweet in every life.

I've lived my whole life as a burden. She makes me feel weightless.

Their love had lasted a lifetime; their stories had become woven together so tightly that they'd forgotten where one ended and another began. All around us were scattered the tiny clues of their love, enmeshed in even the most mundane objects

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.

God and I didn't talk about the big things in life - we didn't engage in philosophical debates or argue about religion - but I talked to Him endlessly because I knew we shared something important. I didn't have proof that He existed, but I believed in Him anyway because I knew He was real. God did the same for me. Unlike people, He didn't need proof that I existed - He knew I did.

If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will.

None of us knows what we can bear until we're asked,