Amy Purdy Quotes
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Every day that I am healthy, I want to use that day to its fullest now.
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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 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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The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.
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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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Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
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I can't really say I miss my toes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.
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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 lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
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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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That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.
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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
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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.