Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity

No one on earth is “functionless”. The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!

As a child there’s a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong...

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will...

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the...

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in...

There’s somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God’s opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain’t nothin you can do, that’s when God...

Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

…in microphysics the observer interferes with the experiment in a way that can’t be measured and that therefore can’t be eliminated. No natural laws can be formulated, saying “such-and-such will happen in every case.” All...

The purpose of empowerment is to urge you towards freedom, to help each of you to break free of all limitations. It is that freedom that will give you eternal happiness and finally connect you...

You will rise above all limitations once you begin to live life with the right attitude. People who fail and fall are the people who see difficulties in every opportunity and call it “impossibility”. Rise...

Never limit yourself to what you can’t do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.

understanding the essence of things,” matches precisely the set of all possible orders to be detected in the Universe as a whole. We should admit that this is not impossible, yet it does seem highly...

Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

It’s knowing one’s … limitations … and then ignoring them.

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn’t matter without a motivation to move.

A good man always knows his limitations.

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don’t give up too early.

Great sex is all about freedom and being everything you’ve always wanted to be. Know now that the only limits you have in regards to your own sexuality are the ones you impose on yourself.

Purge everything that’s holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years...

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a ‘means of livelihood’ while he waits to discover his ‘true vocation’. The world...

Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge...

A paradox may be paradoctored.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

…But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of...

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.

My dad had limitations. That’s what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

In order to succeed greatly without limitations, you must perceive life as a journey of endless possibilities and opportunities.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in ‘measurements’ when he did not know what he...

Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn’t, family that wasn’t family...

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

I used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.

Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds,...

Human rights’ are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of...

I’d always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog – he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect – he’s bound to a single season.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

… a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though...

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

There are no more ceilings over my dreams… They have no limit; they limitless! They are extra-large!

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may...

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That’s what is most important if you want to be free: respect for...

And I couldn’t make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren’t supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren’t supposed to dream big,...