Nick Vujicic Quotes

If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

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

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

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

I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.

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

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.

I'm comfortable not using my vision.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

If you don't like it, learn to love it!

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.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.

In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.

I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.