Quotes About Amy Purdy

#1. My complaint simply concerns the decay of the _art_ of lying.

Mark Twain

#2. I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

#3. When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

Amy Purdy

#4. When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

Amy Purdy

#6. You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

Amy Purdy

#7. When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed

Amy Purdy

#8. Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

Henry Van Dyke

#9. Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

Amy Purdy

#10. Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

Amy Purdy

#11. It's believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

Amy Purdy

#12. The happy pleasure of the person alone, yes?

David Foster Wallace

#13. It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

John Godfrey Saxe

#14. As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

James McAvoy

#15. I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

Kai Ryssdal

#16. If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

Amy Purdy

#17. Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#18. When the second act was over Countess Bezukhova rose, turned to the Rostovs' box - her whole bosom completely exposed - beckoned the old count with a gloved finger, and paying no attention to those who had entered her box, began talking to him with an amiable smile.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.

Ellie Kendrick

#20. I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

Willie Dixon

#21. We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.

Amy Purdy

#22. We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

Amy Purdy

#23. We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

Amy Purdy

#24. You making haste haste on decay ...

Robinson Jeffers