It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. Amy Purdy More Quotes by Amy Purdy More Quotes From Amy Purdy 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 say will milk breakfast 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 day support chance life 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 look you matter world 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 myself perspective trouble people 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 myself me gratitude work 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 myself me my-own work I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses. Amy Purdy i-am how learning strong All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom. Amy Purdy loved high-school freedom school There are no rules in snowboarding. Amy Purdy no-rules rules snowboarding My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me. Amy Purdy anything me disabled legs 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 woman myself you way As humans, we need to reach out for support. Amy Purdy reach out need support 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 me blessing opportunity positive I want to live a fulfilling life. Amy Purdy live fulfilling want life 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-can change power work 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 picture desert hot world
