NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
Reflection On A New Life
by: Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve has mastered the art of turning the impossible into the inevitable. He tells us that we are all capable of overcoming seemingly insurmountable hardships.
The book is about Christopher Reeve's story of how he overcome and how he face when he had a spinal cord injury. His operation was successful but still he remain paralyzed from the shoulders down and unable to breathe on his own. He lives as a vent-dependent quadriplegic.
Excerpts:
As the old saying goes, you better know what you want because you might get it and you've got to accept it. Whether you succeed or whether you encounter adversity, you always have to believe in your worth as a person. That's what counts.
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When things are really bad, you have to laugh. We use humor to relieve tension and cope with many things in life that are whimsical and even absurd. Humor can camouflage jealousy, prejudice, and intolerance. It can bring people together by common reference, which was one of the reasons I enjoyed being an actor. My injury gave me firsthand knowledge that humor is also one of the best ways -- if not the best way -- to channel anger.
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The comfort zone is defined by fear and our perception of our limitations. We are occasionally willing to take small steps outside it, but few of us dare to expand it. Those who dare sometimes fail and retreat, but many experience the satisfaction of moving into a larger comfort zone and the joyful anticipation of more success.
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. If we can conquer outer space, we should be able to conquer inner space too - the frontier of the brain, the central nervous system, and all the afflictions of the body that destroy so many lives and rob our country of so much potential.
