What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us. Joshua Prager More Quotes by Joshua Prager More Quotes From Joshua Prager We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love. Joshua Prager community and-love adventure It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul. Joshua Prager easier body soul No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable. Joshua Prager narrative matter reality Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things. Joshua Prager me always difficult writing My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer need its support. Joshua Prager day me support strange I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing. Joshua Prager chair i-am identity feet
