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Quotes tagged “Limitations”

“So many of our limitations are self-imposed.”
— Jesse Itzler, Stop Being Comfortable
Tagged: Lewis Howes Podcast, Limitations
“I like subversive humor, freckles, women’s knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. I hope for vibrant love, the impossible, the chimerical. I dread knowing precisely my own limitations.”
— René Magritte, René Magritte: Selected Writings
Tagged: subversive, humor, Freckles, Women, Laughter, laugh, Playing, play, vibrant, Love, impossible, Limitations
“I often forget other people have limitations. It’s so sad.”
— Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory, Season 2: The Griffin Equivalency
Tagged: forget, Others, Limitations, Sad
“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”
— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Tagged: exuse, forgive, Mistakes, Realize, Limitations, Limits, Life, Living, Easy, hard, difficult, known, Knowledge, Earth
“But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of—that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: human limitation, Imperfections, Imperfectly Perfect, perfection in imperfection, Limitations, Life
“If you are more present, you will have more chances to capture the pieces of whatever it is you're seeking. If you wrote one good sentence today that's wonderful. If you took a day to rest, that is productive in the long run. Lately, I've been realizing just how often I run myself into my boundaries and limits, and maybe it's good to understand that you are finite and your ability is finite and your energy is finite and your focus is finite.”
— Jonny Sun
Tagged: self, Self & Identity, Self-Care, Self-Love, Self-awareness, Limits, Limitations, Empowering
“A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!”
— Jules Verne, A Journey into the Center of the Earth
Tagged: confinement, Prisoner, detain, detention, boundaries, Borders, Limitations
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
— Alexandre Dumas fils, via Amazon
Tagged: stupidity, Genius, Limitations
“Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others”
— Jack London, Martin Eden
Tagged: limited, Mind, Limitations
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
Tagged: Expectation, Hoping, Limitations
“A second chance extended to another person is also a second chance for you. Don’t limit your potential by closing your mind to the possibility of change. Your decision that someone is not worthy of forgiveness is in fact a statement saying you are not worthy of peace.”
— Kelly Buckley, The Importance of Second Chances and Forgiveness | Kelly Buckley
Tagged: Second Chances, Limitations, Changes
“Never settle for less than what you are worth, your time is the most precious thing you own. You are worthy of happiness, warmth, creativity and freedom, never limit that. Never limit yourself to less that joy for someone, or something, who doesn’t care what you are feeling. You are not a compromise.”
— Amy Kennedy
Tagged: Self-Worth, Limitations, Limitless
“Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.”
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Tagged: Future, Limitations, Dreams
“Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Tagged: Limitations, Self-Satisfaction, Flaws
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life With A Woodpecker
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Life's Questions, Limitations, Happiness
“When you’re in a relationship, you have to work around your partner’s schedule as well. In most cases, that could be very limiting to what you can and can’t do. That’s why it’s better to stay single than be with someone who is complacent and plays it safe.”
— Myke Macapinlac, 7 Reasons You Should Stay Single In Your Twenties
Tagged: Single Life, schedule, Time, Limitations
“There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.”
— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Tagged: Relationships, separation, Limitations, Love, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.”
— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One
Tagged: strength, fragility, Limitations, Womanhood
“If you fight for your limitations you get to keep them.”
— Vince Vaughn as Billy McMahon, The Internship
Tagged: Limitations, Possibility, Determination, Stubbornness, Holding Yourself Back
“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”
— Evelyn Waugh, No Title
Tagged: Limitations, Self-Direction, Self-Pity, Personal Growth, Motivational, Self-awareness, Self-Development

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