Hope and Acceptance

This post is dedicated to my mom, possibly the bravest woman alive.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
~ Michael J. Fox

If I let it affect everything, it’s gonna own everything. I don’t deny it or pretend it’s not there, but if I don’t allow it to be bigger than it is, then I can do everything else.
~ Michael J. Fox on Parkinson's Disease

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
~ Michael J. Fox

I think it is humility and saying "I can't negotiate this. I can't use who I am in the world to get out from under this." Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.
~ Michael J. Fox tells how he accepted his diagnosis, Interview with beliefnet

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. As big as my problems are, as big as Parkinson's is, for example, it can't take up that much space in a world that has so much capacity for good stuff. It just doesn't. I just don't let it take up that much room.
~ Michael J. Fox, Interview with beliefnet