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.
AIMEE MULLINS
You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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