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.
AIMEE MULLINSThe only true disability is a crushed spirit
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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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 had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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