If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
AIMEE MULLINSI like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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 is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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