Amy Purdy Quotes

A loss is something tough.

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

No Victory Without Suffering

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

My life is a struggle.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

My life was pretty rough.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

The nature of the game is pain.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

No cross no crown.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Life is really hard for some people.