It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
AIMEE MULLINSI have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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