You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
AIMEE MULLINSIf 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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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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