Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things… people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.
BETHANY HAMILTONI’m actually not star-struck… I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.
More Bethany Hamilton Quotes
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My belief is where I get my strength. When I’m struggling with something, I can go to him for help and I’m excited to share that.
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The paramedic whispered in my ear ‘God will never leave you or forsake you.’
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Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
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Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.
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Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it’s fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I’ve healed very well.
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Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.
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You don’t need easy, you just need possible.
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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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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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You fall off the horse and you get back on.
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Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.
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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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Your looks do not define who you are.
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I don’t want easy, just possible.
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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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