Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
Interpretation
The quote highlights how some individuals, despite having physical abilities, may feel emotionally or mentally trapped.
Christopher Reeve's quote underscores the idea that physical freedom does not necessarily equate to emotional or mental liberation. Many people may appear capable on the outside, but they can be hindered by their fears, anxieties, or emotional struggles, much like Reeve experienced during his life after his paralysis. This perspective invites reflection on the true nature of freedom and the challenges that can exist within oneself beyond physical limitations.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Just a few years ago, at the age of 22, I learned I had an aggressive form of leukemia. I needed intensive chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to save my life. Back then, my doctors told me that I had a 35 percent chance of surviving my transplant.
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
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