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Reflections on a new life
Christopher Reeve: Nothing is Impossible Christopher Reeve: Nothing is Impossible Christopher Reeve: Nothing is Impossible

In ​"Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life", Christopher Reeve challenges readers not to accept limitations – those set by oneself or by others – but to harness our untapped resources. Christopher Reeve has mastered the art of turning the impossible into the inevitable. In „Nothing is Impossible” he shows that we are all capable of overcoming seemingly insurmountable hardships. He interweaves anecdotes from his own life with speeches and interviews he's given and with evocative photographs taken by his son, Matthew. Reeve teaches us that for able-bodied people, paralysis is a choice – a choice to live with self-doubt and a fear of taking risks – and that it is not an acceptable one. Christopher Reeve knows from experience that the work of conquering inner space is hard and that it inevitably requires some suffering – nothing worth having is easy to get, after all. He also asks challenging questions about why it seems so difficult – if not impossible – for us to work… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2002

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Ballantine Books, New York, 2004
210 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780345470737
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Arrow, Washington, 2003
208 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780099446590
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Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002
ISBN: 9780743527439 · Felolvasta: Christopher Reeve

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I was a survivor; I always had been.

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That began a process of discovering that, in bringing up children and relating to others, sometimes being is more important than doing.

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When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known – the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

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Of course I knew it was only a movie, but it seemed to me that the values embodied by Superman on the screen should be the values that prevail in the real world.

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In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

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But where there is pain, there is also genuine joy.

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I'm not sure if there is a God, but I try to behave as if He is watching.

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When things are really bad, you have to laugh.

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Once we choose hope, everything is possible. We are all on this sea together. But the lighthouse is always there, ready to show us the way home.


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