I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses. Amy Purdy More Quotes by Amy Purdy More Quotes From Amy Purdy 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. Amy Purdy mechangejourneylife I'm a big oatmeal fan. For my every-morning breakfast, I will do oatmeal with cinnamon, goat's milk or even butter, with apples and raisins, and then I'll maybe do some eggs, say two poached eggs with that. Amy Purdy saywillmilkbreakfast I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis. Amy Purdy daysupportchancelife When you are truly you and share who you are with the world and be confident in who you are, it doesn't matter what size you are. It doesn't matter what your different body parts look like. Amy Purdy lookyoumatterworld It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective. Amy Purdy myselfperspectivetroublepeople In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do. Amy Purdy myselfmegratitudework I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out. Amy Purdy myselfmemy-ownwork All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom. Amy Purdy lovedhigh-schoolfreedomschool There are no rules in snowboarding. Amy Purdy no-rulesrulessnowboarding My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me. Amy Purdy anythingmedisabledlegs I'm an athlete, yes, but I'm also a woman. I'm someone who kind of, in a way, lost touch with that part of myself after I lost my legs, because there are certain feminine traits you lose when you have prosthetic legs. Amy Purdy womanmyselfyouway As humans, we need to reach out for support. Amy Purdy reachoutneedsupport 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. Amy Purdy meblessingopportunitypositive I want to live a fulfilling life. Amy Purdy livefulfillingwantlife Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side. Amy Purdy i-canchangepowerwork Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell. Amy Purdy picturedeserthotworld
