Quotes About Limitations

Too many people are locked into a limited worldview because their own character keeps them from seeing the true nature of the world around them.

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. - Bob Proctor

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Los espacios cerrados producen limitaciones extraordinarias en los hombres. Es necesario estar fuera, al aire libre, para admitir que hay cosas que no logras comprender; y eta concienciación no es una derrota sino una posibilidad que tienes de grandeza. A partir de ahí puedes hacer viajes extraordinarios...

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

Unlike the supply of dogs, the supply of good names isn't limitless.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

can our dreams ever blur the intransigent lines which draw the shape that shuts us in?

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't. –

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!" —T. Harv Eker

Human kind Cannot bear very much reality. - Burnt Norton

Sometimes, our best just isn't good enough ? not for those around us, not for those who love us, not for ourselves.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Life is easier when you know yourself. When you can accept your past and your limitations and recognize your strengths and desires. When you really know who you are and what you want, and you don't try to be something you're not.

Yet something nagged at me. It is impossible, of course, to completely know another person; we are, in the end, prisoners of our own minds.

It's the world! What can you do?

I do housework," she said, "and I mend clothes. I'd do a proper job if I could. I'd have been a surgeon, like my father, except it's not allowed." He frowned. "It isn't?" "Of course not. Women can't be surgeons or clerks or lawyers or lecturers at Temple or merchants. There's not actually a law, but there doesn't have to be. People wouldn't stand for it.

Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.

This is a world," he said, "in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do, to his friends and his tradition and his love, lest he be dissolved in a universal confusion and know nothing and love nothing. . . .

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.