Stories of people who did not give :)

About Nick: His Story

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.

Though I attempted suicide as a child, I now want to enjoy this great world for as long as possible. I have chosen to put my faith in God. I know there is more to this life than meets the eye. I have experienced a love that is greater than we can comprehend. I look forward to heaven, a real place I am going to where there will be no more pain, death, sickness, violence, abuse or evil of any kind. I can’t wait to be given arms and legs and to join my loved ones as we reunite to live the real, “happily ever after”.

I can never be perfect, no matter how hard I try. To reach heaven I need to be forgiven for all the things I have done wrong. That is why Jesus, the Son of God, died for the world. He was the only one who could raise Himself from the grave and live a blameless life. He died for my sins and took my place for the punishment of sin, death itself.

Some believe that it is illogical to believe in Jesus, I say, it is logical to follow the one who claimed to be God and proved it by being holy and resurrecting from the grave. I have seen the power of my faith. I have a personal relationship with Jesus. If you do not share that faith, well I am just thankful that I can share mine with you today.

The majority of the world believes in a “higher power” and, from time to time, questions come along. Please, if you are interested in learning more go to my ministry’s web site today. We have a team waiting to read your emails. I can’t always read them personally, but we would love to hear from you.

Whatever beliefs you have, know that I love you and I believe that you were created by God for a tremendous purpose. Don’t give up.

I gave my life to Jesus at age 15 and started sharing my walk of faith. Jesus has given me victory over every circumstance and comforted me in every pain. I believe that once you find faith in God, you will experience the greatest peace, joy and fulfillment. My faith in God is why I am driven to motivate, share and travel. We established a non-profit organization called Life Without Limbs to serve as a platform that enables me to go around the world and share my faith in God and how important it is to have Him in our lives.

I encourage you to browse through all our videos of travel and read more about what we do and how you can get involved.