Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.
BETHANY HAMILTONIt’s been amazing to touch people’s lives.
More Bethany Hamilton Quotes
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To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean – that’s scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
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The paramedic whispered in my ear ‘God will never leave you or forsake you.’
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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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It’s been amazing to touch people’s lives.
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Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning
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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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Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.
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I think it doesn’t matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I’m going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It’s not all about competing and being the best. It’s more about having fun and just doing what you love.
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Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
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My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it’s like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.
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You don’t need easy, you just need possible.
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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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You fall off the horse and you get back on.
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Strive to find things to be thankful for and just look for the good in who you are!
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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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