Quotes About Limitations

a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might originally have arisen across a multitude of years and been separated by extended stretches of bovine gazing. To meet an author whose books one has enjoyed must, in this view, necessarily be a disappointment... because such a meeting can only reveal a person as he exists within, and finds himself subject to, the limitations of time.

In moments of lucidity, we should be able to see for ourselves that untrammeled liberty can paradoxically trap us

The point of marriage is to be usefully unpleasant – at least at crucial times. Together we embrace a set of limitations on one kind of freedom, the freedom to run away, so as to protect and strengthen another kind, the shared ability to mature and create something of lasting value, the pains of which are aligned to our better selves.

She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebody that felt cramped by the confines of her life. She was just somebody who had to get out. And she did it! She went out past Vega, out past Moulquet and Lambard! She saw places that aren't even there anymore! And do you know what she said? Her most famous quotation? Anybody could have done it

the mantra of 'you can be anything' creates more pain than pleasure.

Schopenhauer wrote, 'Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The purpose of life is to grow—materially, intellectually and emotionally. Unfortunately, the Kauravas focus only on material growth. By embracing Krishna, the Pandavas are offered intellectual and emotional growth, besides material growth, that has the power to help them break their own self-imposed limitations.

Though nobleman, he can never be king. Though cowherd, he can always lead.

the chant 'Shanti, Shanti, Shanti-hi' does not mean 'Let there be peace, peace, peace'. It means: 'Let me come to terms with the limitations of me, mine and not mine.' This is the ultimate goal of Hinduism: to outgrow aham and realize atma.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

So, what is beauty if it isn't Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon? Why do we try to pin it down by categorizing it as absolute? Why limit it at all? Why is classic beauty the gold standard? Why is gold the gold standard? And what is "classic"? What's precious about precious stones? Why are diamonds a girl's best friend? Don't tell me what beauty is before I know it for myself.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

God doesn't call us to fix every problem or to please every person; He calls us to do what we can.

Yes. Now they've forgotten. They don't use them. Now we create lives based on limitations. We accept limitations. We accept so many limitations. Now that's not necessary to accept these limitations. D: We get caught up in the culture and what people condition us to believe. J: That's what needs to change.

This critique also misreads the Copernican revolution. Yes, our perceptions misled us about our place in the universe. But its deeper message is this: our perceptions can mislead us about the very nature of the universe itself. We are prone to falsely believe that certain limitations and idiosyncrasies of our perceptions are genuine insights into objective reality.

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.