Amy Purdy Quotes

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.

Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope that there will be an end to that road. There will be a life where they can live their true self.

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.