It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINSPeople presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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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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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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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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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 only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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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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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.
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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