| Hensel, Robert M (1969 - ) | American Disability Advocate |
Visitor Profile
Robert M. Hensel was born in Rota Spain, in 1969 and is currently a resident of Oswego, NY USA. Mr. Hensel was born with a birth defect known as Spina Bifida. He is an advocate for the disabled, and an American poet with over 900 publications, under his belt. He is also in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest non stop wheelie in a wheelchair, for which he covered a total distance of 6.178 miles. The reason for his record, was to help raise money for wheelchair ramps in his community. |
Quotations By This Source
Ability
I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
Added: 2003-11-21
We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.
Added: 2003-11-21
Limitations only go so far.
Added: 2003-11-21
Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle to hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.
Added: 2003-11-21
Age
If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.
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Change
Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.
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Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.
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Character
I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
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Difficulty
Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.
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There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.
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To be, I must endure the pain.
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Education
No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.
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Equality
In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.
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Failure
Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.
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Friendship
Friendship reaches well above all currency.
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Ideas
Structure builds minds into great Monuments.
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Insults
He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.
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Knowledge
The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.
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Life
Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.
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Love
When the heart speaks, love listens.
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One is more desirable when loved, not feared.
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No scale to balance, what's in my heart.
No numbers to measure, nor even to chart.
This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds.
For only through time, can it's value be found.
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Build your world around me, and promise to never let me go, and if ever their comes a time it may seem crowded, may we expand so love may grow.
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Solidarity
A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.
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Sorrow
Tears are the body’s raindrops of emotion.
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Success
In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.
Added: 2003-11-21
Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.
Added: 2003-11-21
Time
Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.
Added: 2003-11-21
Writing
Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.
Added: 2003-11-21
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play.
Added: 2003-11-21
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