"The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last."
- Thomm Quackenbush
"Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered."
- Margaret Atwood
"I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on."
- Sarah Todd Hammer
"People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days,' [my mom] said quietly..."
- Jennifer Starzec
"I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really."
"The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me."
"The weekend was a much-needed breath of fresh air; Monday always seemed to not only take that breath right back, but add a few extra pounds to my shoulders as well."
"Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI"
"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."
- Karl Marx
"The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. It is propelled towards the coming time; it is, in the exact words ..."
- G.K. Chesterton