Amy Purdy Quotes

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

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

Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs.

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.

You just don't expect to see your baby fighting for his life. Looking back, you wonder how you coped.

That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

Once you are born with a handicap, even if the handicap is resolved - as it was in my case - you are left with the benefit of having had it. By contrast, my mother - who had nothing bad happen to her - was a very disabled person. She was an appalling human being who squandered every blessing that God had given her.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

I was injured many times, but life is like this, and I have to accept this.

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 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.

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.

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.

Losing my legs was one of the greatest opportunities of my life.