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I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

Amy Purdy

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

Tags: story, where, borders

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

Amy Purdy

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

Tags: life, second chance, live

About Author
Amy Michelle Purdy (born November 7, 1979) is an American actress, model, para-snowboarder, motivational speaker, clothing designer and author. Purdy is a 2014 Paralympic bronze medalist, 2018 Paralympics silver medalist, and co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

Amy Purdy

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

Tags: birthday, up, kidney

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

Amy Purdy

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

Tags: rain, ocean, waves

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in acti...

Amy Purdy

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in acti...

Tags: action, people, help

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

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.

Tags: opportunity, losing, me

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 a...

Amy Purdy

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 a...

Tags: time, myself, great

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find stre...

Amy Purdy

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find stre...

Tags: survival, situation, you

I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.

Amy Purdy

I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.

Tags: life, my life, never

You don't have to be positive all the time.

Amy Purdy

You don't have to be positive all the time.

Tags: time, you

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

Amy Purdy

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

Tags: myself, girl, me

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

Amy Purdy

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

Tags: sister, down, blazer