Amy Purdy Quotes
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Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.
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Every day that I am healthy, I want to use that day to its fullest now.
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We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
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I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.
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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.
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The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.
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The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.
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I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.
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I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.
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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.
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My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.
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You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
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We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
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Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
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When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
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Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.
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I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature.
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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
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My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.
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I am not an over-the-top kind of person.
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If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.
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I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
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I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things that I love, and my passion, and that's really what helped me move forward. Also, for me just being grateful for what I had in my life versus on focusing on what I was losing, that really helped as well.
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Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.