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" My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others. "

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" The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities. "

" I want to live a fulfilling life. "

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

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" For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Of course, there are benefits to having prosthetics. I can make myself as tall as I want. I can wear flip-flops in the snow if I wanted to. There's benefits. "

" We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them. "

" If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless. "

" If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever. "

" We've all seen that every challenge we've gone through, we've learned something from. It's not getting hung up on the challenges but figuring out how to get ahead. "

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

" We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe. "

" 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. "

" As humans, we need to reach out for support. "