Amy Purdy Quotes

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Amy Purdy

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 7, 1979

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

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

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If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

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

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Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean I'm at any disadvantage, really.

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If you want something bad enough and you work hard enough, anything's possible.

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That's the problem with bacterial meningitis: it progresses really fast. You think you have the flu, and they say within 15 hours it's severely deadly - for sure within the first 24 hours - but even the first 15 hours.

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As humans, we need to reach out for support.

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We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

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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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My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.

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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.

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I want to live a fulfilling life.

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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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Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

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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.

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

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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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There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

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I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

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