So many of our limitations are self-imposed.
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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.
I often forget other people have limitations. It’s so sad.
— Stephen Engel, Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, imdb.com
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the 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.
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…
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!
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
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.
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…
Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
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…
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.
There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.
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.
If you fight for your limitations you get to keep them.
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.