I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.
BETHANY HAMILTONI gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it’s been a special relationship. To me it’s not a religion; it’s just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.
More Bethany Hamilton Quotes
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Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.
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Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.
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I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I dont think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.
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You don’t need easy, you just need possible.
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Your looks do not define who you are.
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Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.
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I can’t change it, That was God’s plan for my life and I’m going to go with it.
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Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.
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There’s no such thing as a handicap – it’s all in your head
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I don’t really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.
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I’m a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord – and how to surf!
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Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don’t do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
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We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn’t normally talk to your parents about.
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People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.
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Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.
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God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.
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Being out there in the ocean, God’s creation, it’s like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
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Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I’m up at 5 A.M. every day.
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I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you’re surfing. All around it’s beautiful and fun.
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I wouldn’t change what happened to me because then I wouldn’t have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.
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It’s been amazing to touch people’s lives.
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In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.
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It’s hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you’ll never surf again was gone in one wave.
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We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us – our passions.
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The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – “not just sketches, but real art”. She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, “God painting His storyboard on the sky”.
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Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.
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