Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
AIMEE MULLINSIf 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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 would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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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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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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