Jane Leavy Quotes

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts me. The protagonist, who has lost all ability to move except one eye, discusses his role as a father. He notes, 'Even a fraction of a father is still a father.'

We all have bad things that happen in our lives, and a lot of us wonder how we can go back to before the event, whatever it is. 'Fallout 4' is about realising that your life has a new normal. We want to put you in the shoes of someone who knows what life was like before this.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.'

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

The fact I'm blind has been a great help to my career. If I'd been sighted I'd have played baseball and got into trouble like all other kids on my block.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

It is a miracle that I can see at all and continue serving the American people.