Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Amy Purdy - Page 2

I'm really motivated by music, and I love dancing, even if it's just by myself in my room or if it's going out with my friends.

I'm not trying to be an inspiration, but I'm flattered to be considered one.

To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.

For me, I just began, eventually, to embrace what I had. This is what I have to deal with and, not just deal with, but this is what I have to share, and how can I do that the best way.

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

A lot of times, people think 'para' as far as 'paralyzed.' 'Para' means 'alongside,' so the Paralympics are alongside the Olympics on the same courses, the same hills.

After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.

I like moving, challenging myself.

It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.

All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.

I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.

When you are truly you and share who you are with the world and be confident in who you are, it doesn't matter what size you are. It doesn't matter what your different body parts look like.

I've always made the choice to do everything to my fullest potential.

I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want people to feel sorry for me. I didn't want people to see me as disabled. I wanted to live a life of adventure and stories.

My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.

I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.

I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.

I am not an over-the-top kind of person.

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

I guess I'm always up for a challenge.

I'm a big oatmeal fan. For my every-morning breakfast, I will do oatmeal with cinnamon, goat's milk or even butter, with apples and raisins, and then I'll maybe do some eggs, say two poached eggs with that.

That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,' and I have.

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

I'm an athlete, yes, but I'm also a woman. I'm someone who kind of, in a way, lost touch with that part of myself after I lost my legs, because there are certain feminine traits you lose when you have prosthetic legs.

I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.

I can't really say I miss my toes.

Of course, there are benefits to having prosthetics. I can make myself as tall as I want. I can wear flip-flops in the snow if I wanted to. There's benefits.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.

Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed

We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.