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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:42:09 -0400

taross-velin: Source “Hi Friend, My name is Nick Vujicic and I...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:40:41 -0400

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“Hi Friend,

My name is Nick Vujicic and I am thankful to have been born 30 years ago with no arms and no legs. I won’t pretend my life is easy, but through the love of my parents, loved ones, and faith in God, I have overcome my adversity and my life is now filled with joy and purpose. I reside now in California with my wife, Kanae, and we both love seeing people’s lives changed for the better or touched in some way. It is my hope that your life is positively impacted by my story.

I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and it was a shock to my parents that I arrived without limbs. There is no medical reason for it. My parents did their very best to keep me in the mainstream school system and give me every opportunity to live to the fullest. I was blessed to have a brother and a sister as my best friends too.

We later moved to Brisbane, Australia, where I lived for 14 years before I made the move to California. At age eight, I could not see a bright future ahead and I became depressed. When I was ten years old, I decided to end my life by drowning myself in a bathtub. After a couple attempts, I realized that I did not want to leave my loved ones with the burden and guilt that would result from my suicide. I could not do that to them.

I wasn’t depressed my entire childhood, but I did have ups and downs. At age thirteen I hurt my foot, which I use for many things like typing, writing and swimming. That injury made me realize that I need to be more thankful for my abilities and less focused on my disabilities.

When I was fifteen years old, I sealed my faith in God and from there it has been an amazing journey.

A janitor at my high school inspired me to start speaking about my faith and overcoming adversity when I was seventeen. I spoke only a dozen times to very small groups over the next two years. Then I found myself in front of three hundred sophomore (grade 10) students and I was very nervous. My knees were shaking. Within the first three minutes of my talk, half the girls were crying, and most of the boys were struggling to hold their emotions together. One girl in particular was sobbing very hard. We all looked at her and she put her hand up. She said, “I am so sorry to interrupt, but can I come up and hug you?”

She came hugged me in front of everyone, and whispered in my ear, “Thank you, thank you, thank you. No one has ever told me that they loved me and that I am beautiful the way I am.”

Her gratitude inspired me to go across 44 countries and speak 2,000 times. I realized that we all need love and hope and that I was in a unique position to share that with people around the world.

While majoring in both accounting and financial planning at a university, I also worked on developing my abilities as a speaker. I worked with a speaking coach who helped to cultivate me as a presenter. He especially worked on my body language as my hands flew everywhere at first!

I spoke on motivational topics after creating the company, attitude is altitude. I also launched a non-profit ministry, life without limbs, to spread my messages of faith and hope around the world.

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whatever you are dealing with, I hope that you will be inspired by my story and my message. Please enjoy browsing around this website where I share with you my thoughts on faith, hope and love to encourage you and to help you overcome your own challenges.

Dream big my friend and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you too will overcome.

Sincerely,

Nick”

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“Sometimes it only takes one person to believe in you and tell you that you’re beautiful. Sometimes it only takes one person to say that ‘you know what? Don’t worry about them. You’re not only beautiful the way that you are, but you’re going to go far.”

“You know what’s worse than having no arms, and no legs? Fear.”

“Dream big, and never give up. Accept the things you cannot change, try today, change the things you can. Take one day at a time knowing that you’re never alone, and that I love you, and remember my smile on a rainy day, and you’ll say to yourself, ‘Alright if Nick can do it, so can I.’”

Let’s just take a moment and appreciate this man and what he’s been through, he has been through so much and yet he lives life to the fullest. He is my hero, my idol, I want to be like him one day, someone with such resolve and hope. I hope that you all remember this amazing man when you are feeling down and stand up from the rut like him and live life to the fullest.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 10:04:45 -0400

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Tue, 21 May 2013 09:59:38 -0400

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Banff, 2011 (by Erich DeLeeuw)

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feel the wind by **mog** on Flickr.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:15:26 -0400

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:15:22 -0400

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awkwardsituationist:

98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.

though a well known fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living instead off his monthly state pension of 80 euros.

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laugh-addict: i would love to have the sun from soul eater be the actual sun irl, imagine how scary...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:09:13 -0400

laugh-addict:

i would love to have the sun from soul eater be the actual sun irl, imagine how scary and funny that would, like you were walking down the street having a bad day then you look up and

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sexpigeon: Morris is missing. He ran out of the house he was...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:18:35 -0400

sexpigeon:

Morris is missing. He ran out of the house he was staying in at 17th and Bryant and is now loose in the Mission. If you see him, please, please send anything to my tumblr inbox or email me at foodsco at gmail.

Update: some people we ran into saw him running around near 19th and Kansas last night, up in Potrero Hill, but none of them managed to get ahold of him. We searched from 17th to 20th and from Vermont to De Haro and couldn’t find him. Thank you so much to everyone who’s already reblogged this, and for all the support in general. We’ve notified animal control and we’ll be flyering/searching all day. If anyone has suggestions about other things we should be doing, let us know. And please keep your fingers crossed for little Morris.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:41:30 -0400

the-absolute-funniest-posts:

smileyfacewinkwink:

Who doesn’t love Marius?

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