Amy Purdy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

You don't have to be positive all the time.

I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way.

I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.