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• It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

  Laurie Anderson

  Thinking, Views, Ifs

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• I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

  Nora Johnson

  Golf, Thinking, Age

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• Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loss, Perfection, Individuality

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.32, Full Moon Publications

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• It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.

  Lionel Trilling

  Science, Class, Names

  Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.425, Northwestern University Press

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• The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Men, Taoism

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• AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Unique, Compassion

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• It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.

  Liv Ullmann

  Art, Directors, Actors

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• For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self, Skins

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Journey Into Healing: Awakening the Wisdom Within You”, p.13, Random House

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• Destructive Failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your shortcomings and when not processed correctly, keeps you feeling inadequate and defective. Productive failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your erroneous thinking and when processed correctly, leads you to better options and keeps you dependent on the Lord.

  June Hunt

  Thinking, Feelings, Weakness

  June Hunt (2013). “Success Through Failure (June Hunt Hope for the Heart)”, p.10, Aspire Press

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• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Frustrated, Important

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• If you find it difficult to love the human in someone, then love the divine in him. The divine in him is God. God exists in that person just as God exists in you. To love God is extremely easy because God is divine and perfect. Each time you look at an individual, if you can consciously become aware of God's existence in him, then you will not be disturbed by his or her imperfections or limitations.

  Sri Chinmoy

  God, Perfect, Looks

  "The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace".

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• There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

  Moshe Katsav

  Country, Rights, Iran

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• Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Realizing, Abundance

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• The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Men, Belief, Belief In Self

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• Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Humility, Men, Important

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• Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Single Mom, Loss, Understanding

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• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

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• Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Feelings, Mind, Spirit

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.

  Naomi Wolf

  Usa, Ideas, Slave Owners

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• Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Medicine, Force

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• The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.

  Marianne Williamson

  Home, Doors, Soul

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 06, 2013

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• People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  People, Path, Defeated

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

  Helen Keller

  Wall, Fall, Land

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