Amy Purdy Quotes

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.

I am grateful to all the ups and downs in my life.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I choose to live, not just exist.

I don't regret anything I've gone through.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.