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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

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I often forget other people have limitations. It’s so sad.

— Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory, Season 2: The Griffin Equivalency

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Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

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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

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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, via www.instagram.com

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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

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

— Alexandre Dumas fils, via GoodReads

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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others

— Jack London, Martin Eden

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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

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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, via satiricalwords.tumblr.com

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Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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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

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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

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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

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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

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If you fight for your limitations you get to keep them.

— Vince Vaughn as Billy McMahon, The Internship

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

— Evelyn Waugh, No Title

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So many of our limitations are self-imposed.

— Jesse Itzler, Stop Being Comfortable

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

I often forget other people have limitations. It’s so sad.

— Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory, Season 2: The Griffin Equivalency

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

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

— Jonny Sun, via www.instagram.com

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

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

— Alexandre Dumas fils, via GoodReads

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others

— Jack London, Martin Eden

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

— Amy Kennedy, via satiricalwords.tumblr.com

Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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

— Tom Robbins, Still Life With A Woodpecker

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

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

If you fight for your limitations you get to keep them.

— Vince Vaughn as Billy McMahon, The Internship

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

— Evelyn Waugh, No Title