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.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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