Nick Vujicic. No arms, no legs, no fuss
It looks like a myth, a beautiful, instructive, but unreal story. Think about it, a boy born without legs and arms is a world famous motivational speaker by the age of 31, happy husband and father. Nick Vujicic traveled half the world. He performed at the stadium, and 110 thousand people listened to him. Is it possible?
Happens. If you perform a small feat every day. We will tell you about the 12 labors Nick Vujicic, thanks to which one can read in his sincere smile: “I am happy.”
Birth
One of the best ways To get rid of the pain of the past is to replace it with gratitude.
December 4, 1982. Duska Vujicic is giving birth. The first child is about to be born. The husband, Boris Vujicic, is present at the birth.
A shoulder appeared. Boris turned pale and left the family room. After some time, a doctor approached him.
“Doctor, my son doesn’t have an arm?” – asked Boris. "No. Your son has neither arms nor legs,” the doctor answered.
Nicholas's parents (as the newborn was named) knew nothing about Tetra-Amelia syndrome. They didn't know how to handle a baby without arms and legs. The mother did not put her son to her breast for 4 months.
Gradually, Nick’s parents got used to accepting and loving their son for who he is.
Childhood
Failure is the path to mastery.
Ham. That's what Nick nicknamed the only limb on his body. A resemblance to a foot with two fused toes, subsequently separated surgically.
But Nick thinks that his “ham” is not so bad. He learned to use it to write, type (43 words per minute), drive an electric wheelchair, and push off on a skateboard.
Not everything worked out right away. But when the time came, Nick went to a regular school, along with his healthy peers.
Despair
When you feel like giving up on your dream, force yourself to work one more day, one more week, one more month, and one more year. You will be amazed at what will happen if you don't give up.
“You don’t know how to do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You’re nobody!” – Nick heard these words every day at school.
The focus shifted: he was no longer proud of what he had learned; he's fixated on something he can never do. Hug your wife, hold your child...
One day Nick asked his mother to take him to the bathroom. Driven by the thought “Why me?” the boy tried to drown himself.
“They didn’t deserve this” - 10-year-old Nick realized that he could not do this to his parents, who loved him very much. Suicide is dishonest. Unfair towards loved ones.
Self-identification
Other people's words and actions cannot define your personality.
"What happened to you?!" – until Nick became world famous, this was the most frequently asked question to him.
Seeing a man without arms and legs, people cannot hide their shock. Sidelong glances, whispers behind his back, grins - Nick responds to everything with a smile. “It’s all because of cigarettes,” he says to those who are especially impressionable. And he makes fun of the children: “I just didn’t clean my room...”.
Humor
Laugh as much as possible. There are days in the life of any person when troubles and hardships pour in as if from a cornucopia. Don't curse trials. Be grateful to life for giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. A sense of humor will help with this.
Nick is a big joker. There are no arms or legs - life has played a trick on him, so why not laugh at it?
One day, Nick dressed up as a pilot and, with the permission of the airline, greeted passengers at the gate with the words: “Today we are experiencing new technology control the plane... and I am your pilot."
People who personally know Nick Vucic say that he has an excellent sense of humor. And this quality, as we know, excludes self-pity.
Talent
If you are deeply unhappy, then you are not living your life. Your talents are being misused.
Nick Vujicic has two higher education: accounting and financial planning. He is a successful motivational speaker and businessman. But his main talent is the ability to persuade. Including through art.
Nick’s first book is called “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for an Absurdly Good Life” (translated into 30 languages, published in Russian in 2012). In 2009 he played main role in the short film “Butterfly Circus” (IMDb rating – 8.10). A story about finding the meaning of life.
Sport
It is impossible to argue with the fact that madness is genius: anyone who is willing to take risks appears in the eyes of others as either a madman or a genius.
“Crazy” - many people think when they watch Nick looking for a wave while surfing or jumping with a parachute.
“I realized that physical dissimilarity limits me only to the extent that I limit myself,” Vujicic once admitted and did not limit himself in anything.
Nick plays football, tennis, and swims well.
Motivation
Think of your attitude towards the world as a remote control remote control. If you don't like the program you're watching, you simply grab the remote control and switch the TV to another program. It's the same with your attitude to life: when you're unhappy with the result, change your approach, no matter what problem you're facing.
At the age of 19, Nick was asked to speak to students at the university where he studied (Griffith University). Nicholas agreed: he came out and briefly told about himself. Many people in the audience cried, and one girl got up on stage and hugged him.
The young man understood that oratory was his calling.
Nick Vujicic traveled to 45 countries, met with 7 presidents, and spoke in front of thousands of spectators. Every day he receives dozens of requests for interviews and invitations to give a speech. Why do people want to listen to him?
Because his speeches do not boil down to the banal: “Are you having problems? Look at me – no arms, no legs, that’s who has problems!”
Nick understands that suffering cannot be compared, everyone has their own pain, and does not try to cheer people up, saying, “compared to me, everything is not so bad for you.” He just talks to them.
Embrace
I don’t have hands, and when you hug, you press right into their hearts. It's amazing!
Nick admits that since he was born without arms, he never missed them. The only thing he lacks is a handshake. He cannot shake hands with anyone.
But he found a way out. Nick hugs people... with his heart. Once Vujicic even organized a marathon of hugs - 1,749 people hugged with their hearts per day.
Love
If you are open to love, love will come. If you surround your heart with a wall, there will be no love.
They met on April 11, 2010. The beautiful Kanae Miyahara has a boyfriend, Nick has no arms or legs. It's not love at first sight. It's just love. Real, deep.
On February 12, 2012, Nick and Kanae got married. Everything is as it should be: White dress, tuxedo and Honeymoon in Hawaii.
Family
It's impossible to live life to the fullest, if your every decision is determined by fear. Fear will keep you from moving forward and prevent you from becoming what you want. But this is just a mood, a feeling. Fear is not real!
Tetra-Amelia syndrome is hereditary. Nick wasn't afraid.
Hope
Everything good in life begins with hope.
Nick Vujicic is a man without arms and legs. Nick Vujicic is a man who believes in miracles. There is a pair of boots in his linen closet. So... just in case. After all, in life there is always room for something more.
It was theirs long-awaited firstborn. The father was in labor. He saw the baby's shoulder - what is it? No hand. Boris Vuychich realized that he had to leave the room immediately so that his wife would not have time to notice how his face had changed. He couldn't believe what he saw.
When the doctor came out to him, he began to say:
"My son! Doesn't he have a hand?
The doctor replied:
“No... Your son has neither arms nor legs.”
Doctors refused to show the baby to the mother. The nurses were crying.
Why?
Nicholas Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia, into a family of Serbian emigrants. Mother is a nurse. Father is a pastor. The whole parish lamented: “Why did the Lord allow this to happen?” The pregnancy proceeded normally, everything was fine with heredity.
At first, the mother could not bring herself to take her son in her arms and could not breastfeed him. “I had no idea how I would take the child home, what to do with him, how to take care of him,” recalls Duska Vujicic. – I didn’t know who to contact with my questions. Even the doctors were at a loss. Only after four months did I begin to come to my senses. My husband and I began to solve problems without looking too far ahead. One after another."
Nick has a semblance of a foot instead of a left leg. Thanks to this, the boy learned to walk, swim, skateboard, play on the computer and write. The parents managed to get their son into a regular school. Nick became the first disabled child in a regular Australian school.
“This meant that teachers were paying too much attention to me,” Nick recalls. - On the other hand, although I had two friends, most often I heard from my peers: “Nick, go away!”, “Nick, you don’t know how to do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You’re nobody.” !
Drown yourself
Every evening Nick prayed to God and asked him: “God, give me arms and legs!” He cried and hoped that when he woke up in the morning, arms and legs would already appear. Mom and dad bought him electronic hands. But they were too heavy, and the boy was never able to use them.
On Sundays he went to church school. They taught there that the Lord loves everyone. Nick didn’t understand how this could be - why then God didn’t give him what everyone else had. Sometimes adults came up and said: “Nick, everything will be fine!” But he didn’t believe them - no one could explain to him why he was like this, and no one could help him, not even God. At the age of eight, Nicholas decided to drown himself in the bathtub. He asked his mother to take him there.
“I turned my face into the water, but it was very difficult to hold on. Nothing worked. During this time, I imagined a picture of my funeral - my dad and mom were standing there... And then I realized that I couldn’t kill myself. All I saw from my parents was love for me.”
Change your heart
Nick never tried to commit suicide again, but he kept thinking why he should live.
He won't be able to work, he won't be able to hold his fiancée's hand, he won't be able to hold his child when he cries. One day, Nick’s mother read an article about a seriously ill man who inspired others to live.
Mom said: “Nick, God needs you. I do not know how. I do not know when. But you can serve Him.”
At the age of fifteen, Nick opened the Gospel and read. The disciples asked Christ why this man was blind. Christ answered: “So that the works of God may be revealed in him.” Nick says that at that moment he stopped being angry at God.
“Then I realized that I am not just a man without arms and legs. I am God's creation. God knows what He is doing and why. “It doesn’t matter what people think,” Nick says now. – God did not answer my prayers. This means that He wants to change my heart more than the circumstances of my life. Probably, even if I suddenly had arms and legs, it would not calm me down so much. Arms and legs on their own.”
At nineteen, Nick studied financial planning at university. One day he was asked to speak to students. Seven minutes were allotted for the speech. Within three minutes the girls in the hall were crying. One of them could not stop sobbing, she raised her hand and asked: “Can I come up on stage and hug you?” The girl approached Nick and began to cry on his shoulder. She said: “No one ever told me they loved me, no one ever told me I was beautiful just the way I am. My life changed today."
Nick came home and announced to his parents that he knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. The first thing my father asked was: “Are you thinking of finishing university?” Then other questions arose:
-Are you going to travel alone?
- And with whom?
- Don't know.
-What are you going to talk about?
- Don't know.
– Who will listen to you?
- Don't know.
A hundred attempts to get up
Ten months a year he is on the road, two months at home. He traveled to more than two dozen countries, more than three million people heard him - in schools and prisons. It happens that Nick speaks in stadiums with thousands of seats. He performs about 250 times a year. Nick receives about three hundred offers for new performances a week. He became a professional speaker.
Before the start of the performance, an assistant carries Nick onto the stage and helps him sit on some raised platform so that he can be seen. Then Nick tells episodes from his everyday life. About how people still stare at him on the streets. About the fact that when children run up and ask: “What happened to you?!” He in a hoarse voice replies: “It’s all because of cigarettes!”
And to those who are younger, he says: “I didn’t clean my room.” He calls what is in place of his legs a “ham.” Nick says his dog likes to bite him. And then he begins to beat out a fashionable rhythm with his ham.
After that he says: “And to be honest, sometimes you can fall like this.” Nick falls face first into the table he was standing on.
And he continues:
“It happens in life that you fall, and it seems you have no strength to get up. You wonder then if you have hope... I have neither arms nor legs! It seems that if I try to get up even a hundred times, I won’t be able to. But after another defeat, I don’t give up hope. I will try again and again. I want you to know that failure is not the end. The main thing is how you finish. Are you going to finish strong? Then you will find the strength to rise up - in this way.”
He leans his forehead, then helps himself with his shoulders and stands up.
The women in the audience begin to cry.
And Nick begins to talk about gratitude to God.
I'm not saving anyone
– Are people touched and consoled because they see that someone is having a harder time than they are?
“Sometimes they tell me: “No, no! I can’t imagine myself without arms and legs!” But it is impossible to compare suffering, and it is not necessary. What can I say to someone whose parents are divorced? I don't understand their pain.
One day a twenty-year-old woman approached me. She was kidnapped when she was ten years old, enslaved and abused. During this time, she had two children, one of them died. Now she has . Her parents don't want to communicate with her. What can she hope for? She said that if she had not believed in God, she would have committed suicide. Now she talks about her faith with other AIDS patients so they can hear her.
Last year I met people who had a son without arms and legs. The doctors said: “He will be a plant for the rest of his life. He won’t be able to walk, he won’t be able to study, he won’t be able to do anything.” And suddenly they found out about me and met me in person - another person like him. And they had hope. It is important for everyone to know that they are not alone and that they are loved.
– Why did you believe in God?
“I couldn’t find anything else that would give me peace.” Through the word of God, I learned the truth about the purpose of my life - about who I am, why I live, and where I will go when I die. Without faith, nothing made sense.
There is a lot of pain in this life, so there must be absolute Truth, the absolute Hope that is above all circumstances. My hope is in heaven. If you associate your happiness with temporary things, it will be temporary.
I can tell you many times when teenagers came up to me and said: “Today I looked in the mirror with a knife in my hand. This was supposed to be the last day of my life. You saved me".
A woman came up to me one day and said, “Today is my daughter’s second birthday. Two years ago she listened to you and you saved her life.” But I can’t save myself either! Only God can. What I have is not Nick's achievements. If it were not for God, I would not be here with you and would no longer exist in the world. I couldn't handle my trials on my own. And I thank God that my example inspires people.
– What can inspire you, besides faith and family?
- A friend's smile.
Once I was told that a terminally ill guy wanted to see me. He was eighteen years old. He was already very weak and could not move at all. I entered his room for the first time. And he smiled. It was a precious smile. I told him that I don’t know how I would feel in his place, that he is my hero.
We saw each other several more times. I asked him one day: “What would you like to say to all people?” He said, "What do you mean?" I replied: “If only there was a camera here.” And every person in the world could see you. What would you say?
He asked for time to think. Last time we talked on the phone, he was already so weak that I could not hear his voice on the phone. We spoke through his father. This guy said, “I know what I would say to all the people. Try to be a milestone in someone's life story. At least do something. Something to be remembered."
Hug without hands
Nick used to fight for independence in every detail. Now, due to a busy schedule, more cases have begun to be entrusted to the patronage worker, who helps with dressing, moving and other routine matters. Nick's childhood fears did not come true. He recently got engaged, is about to get married, and now believes that he doesn’t need his hands to hold his bride’s heart. He no longer worries about how he will communicate with his children. Chance helped. An unfamiliar two-year-old girl approached him. She saw that Nick had no hands. Then the girl put her hands behind her back and laid her head on his shoulder.
Nick can't shake anyone's hand - he hugs people. And even set a world record. A guy without arms hugged 1,749 people in an hour. He wrote a book about his life while typing 43 words per minute on a computer. In between work trips, he fishes, plays golf and surfs.
“I don’t always get up in the morning with a smile on my face. Sometimes my back hurts,” says Nick, “But because my principles include great power, I continue to take small steps forward, baby steps. Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act, relying not on one’s own strength, but on God’s help.
Parents of disabled children usually divorce. My parents didn't divorce. Do you think they were scared? Yes. Do you think they trusted God? Yes. Do you think they are now seeing the fruits of their labors? Absolutely right.
How many people would believe it if they showed me on TV and said, “This guy prayed to the Lord and he got arms and legs”? But when people see me as I am, they wonder: “How can you smile?” For them this is a visible miracle. I need my trials to make me realize how dependent I am on God. Other people need my testimony that “the power of God is made perfect in weakness.” They look into the eyes of a man without arms and without legs and see in them peace, joy - what everyone strives for.”
Nick's parents emigrated to Australia from Serbia. His father served as a local pastor catholic church, and his mother worked as a nurse. The child was the first-born, whose arrival both parents were looking forward to with great impatience. Everything went great during pregnancy. Even expectant mother- the health worker - nothing alarmed. The stronger the shock of what happened after the birth.
When the baby emerged from his mother’s womb, a general silence hung over him, which greatly alarmed the young mother. She saw that the doctors were looking at each other in fear and could not understand what was happening. The baby screamed and was immediately taken away. The woman asked the doctors to show her the child, but no one dared to tell her about the problem.
When the baby was finally brought in, and she saw that he had absolutely no arms and one leg, and instead of the other there was only a tiny foot with two deformed and completely fused toes, the woman almost suffocated in sobs... For the young parents, what happened was terrible tragedy, for which they were completely unprepared.
In childhood
Naturally, the clinic staff suggested that they abandon the child and place him in a special institution for disabled children. But the couple's religious beliefs did not allow them to do this. As soon as the doctors gave permission, they took the newborn boy home, having absolutely no idea what they would do with him next and how to help him.
Childhood
Time passed. They sought information and consulted doctors. It turned out that their son was born this way due to a severe genetic disease, which manifests itself very rarely and is expressed in the underdevelopment or complete absence of all limbs. In Nick’s case, there was no talk of installing prosthetics, since they simply had nothing to hold on to – he didn’t even have stumps.
Realizing that it was almost impossible to help their son and coming to terms with their grief, the parents accepted the only correct solution- live on and do everything to help the child get comfortable in such a cruel world for him. And step by step they began to solve the problem of its adaptation.
It all started with complex operation, which separated his toes on his foot. Now it has become his only opportunity to hold or otherwise use the objects of the surrounding world. But this understanding did not come immediately. In the first years, everyone just prayed. Morning and evening - in church, and during the day Nick turned to God countless times with a request to give him at least one hand.
Although the parents sincerely loved their only child, Nick felt very unhappy. He absolutely couldn't do without outside help. Even changing body position was a problem. But nevertheless, he grew up as a very smart boy and was interested in everything he saw around him.
Things got worse when Nick started attending school. He saw that other children were able to move around and suffered greatly from this. His depression deepened every day. Moreover, he hid it from his parents. Nick saw the effort they were making so that he could live a normal life and didn't want to upset them.
He considers that day at the age of ten one of the turning points in his destiny. He became disillusioned with life and God and decided that he could no longer fight for his survival. Nick wanted only one thing - for it all to end. But he couldn’t even kill himself on his own without asking someone for help...
But he found a way out. Having asked his mother to give him a bath, he decided to drown himself in it. He used to like to lie down and relax in warm water and mom, having lowered him into the bath, calmly went out for a few minutes. Nick began to make desperate attempts to get his face in the water, but he failed.
At that moment, when this almost happened, the tear-stained faces of his parents suddenly appeared before his eyes. He realized that this would be a blow and pain for them for the rest of their lives and decided to continue to fight. Since then, he has never had thoughts of suicide.
Moreover, he began to actively work with his body and especially with his feet. And then he asked his parents to transfer him to a school for ordinary children, firmly deciding to live full life. At first, the guys were very wary of Nick and even tried to make fun of him. But he, having an excellent sense of humor and the ability to laugh at himself, quickly made friends and later even became a class leader.
Nick understood his life's purpose when he heard a story about one person from his mother. While seriously ill, he was actively involved in charity work and continued to help and inspire others. He realized that this was something he could actually do. In the school council, he took up issues of adaptation and assistance to disabled children.
Career
IN school years took place one of the first public speaking Nick Vujicic in front of other guys. He was terribly worried and almost forgot the speech that he had so carefully prepared and rehearsed for several days. But he understood that simply remaining silent and leaving would be a defeat. And he promised himself to never give up again. And then he just started talking about himself... Since then, he was regularly invited to performances that attracted packed houses.
Active social activities Nick continued to lead in student years. He decided to get a business education and entered the University of Melbourne. By the way, there he quickly became one of the best students. Then he began to travel, discovering a huge world together with his classmates.
The geography of his performances was constantly expanding. Rumors about an unusual person and his positive attitude towards life quickly spread throughout Australia. At his performances people overestimated own life. As he received feedback, he became increasingly convinced that he was bringing benefit to the world by making it a better place. People wrote that they gained faith in themselves and opened new pages in their lives, thanks to him.
At first his lectures were for charity. Nick earned money by working in his main specialty - business and accounting. By the time he graduated from university, he had learned to type quickly on a computer with his feet and was fluent in modern accounting programs. But Nick understood that what he did for people was much more important than statistics and reports. And I was looking for an opportunity to make lectures my main occupation.
He received his first recognition for his hard work in 2005, when he was voted “Person of the Year” in Australia. In 2008, a small film “The Butterfly Circus” was released, in which Vujicic essentially played himself. This film brought him not only international fame, but also his first serious income, which was a prize of 100 thousand dollars. Now Nick can afford to leave his job and fully devote himself to his life's purpose.
And just a year later, Nick publishes his first book, “Life without Borders,” in which he honestly describes the entire path that he had to go from a completely helpless child scared of life to a motivator whose advice and opinion are listened to by thousands of people. The book quickly spread around the world, and Nick was invited to speak in the United States for the first time.
Since then, he has constantly traveled around the world, inspiring and motivating people. He is the founder charitable foundation helping people with disabilities. Nick also constantly appears on television and continues to write new books. To date, five of them have already been published. Most of them have been translated into many languages of the world. Nick has long since earned his first million and is living a healthy and active image life: travels a lot, surfs, climbs mountains and dives.
Personal life of Nick Vujicic
When Nick first started his career, he was already happy that he had found his own path in life. Then this was his personal happiness. Could a man without arms and legs hope that the world would be so kind to him that he would still meet his true love?!
At one of his performances, Nick met a charming girl, Kanae Miyahara, who was also a Christian and completely shared his views. After the meeting, the young people exchanged contacts and continued communication. Gradually they became close friends. But for a very long time Nick could not believe that Kanae had completely unfriendly feelings towards him.
With my wife
Only four years after they met, he decided to propose to her. And he was simply at the height of bliss when the girl answered him with consent. Since then, Nick has a beloved wife, with whom he practically never separates. A year after the wedding, in 2013, she gave him their first child, and in 2015 theirs was born younger son. Contrary to the fears of doctors, the children are completely healthy.
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Nick Vujicic biography
Dear site visitors! Today we will tell you about a man whose story shakes everyone to the core without exception. This man's name is Nick Vujicic. He rightfully occupies one of the first places in our list of the most beautiful people peace. This is a very beautiful and very strong person.
Nick was born without arms and legs. It is impossible to even imagine what moral and physical torment he and his parents had to go through. But these people did not give up, and Nick Vujicic became one of the most famous Christian preachers in the world. Through his example, he instills faith and hope in the hearts of millions of people around the world every day.
So, meet Nick Vujicic.
In 1982, the Vujicic family of Serbian emigrants was expecting a new addition. Dushka Vujicic's pregnancy was going well, ultrasound data indicated the health of the fetus, but the mother was still tormented by anxiety.
On the boy’s birthday, December 2, 1982, father Boris Vujicic was present at the birth, and then the baby’s head appeared, then his shoulder - but what was it? – the child did not have a hand. Boris left the room so that his wife would not see how his face changed. He couldn't believe what he saw. When the doctor came out to him, Boris asked him, “Does my child have no arm?” “No,” answered the doctor, “He has neither arms nor legs.” The doctors, fearing for the mother's condition, refused to show her the child. By some evil decision of fate, the baby came into this world with such characteristics that make life simply unbearable.
Imagine how the parents felt, did they hope that their son would one day become someone who would inspire and give hope to people from all corners of the globe?
Of all the limbs, Nick had only part of the foot, with the help of which he learned to do many things - walk, swim, write, skateboard. Nick's parents ensured that their child studied in a regular school and Nick Vujicic became the first disabled child to study in a regular Australian school.
It was very difficult for Nick, he was acutely aware of loneliness and his difference from the whole world, and often thought why he came into this world in the first place. At the age of eight, Nick attempted suicide by diving into the bathtub and trying to choke to death. But could not. He thought about his parents, whom he loved very much and who loved him very much. He thought that his parents would never be able to forgive themselves for his death, they would always believe that it was their fault that Nick decided to die. He couldn't allow this to happen. Nick never tried to kill himself again, but often thought about his purpose in this world.
One day, Mom read Nick an article about a seriously ill man who inspired other people to live. This story deeply touched Nick's soul. This was the first step in his understanding of his destiny.
Over time, Nick learned to adapt more and more to his situation. In the seventh grade, Nick was elected head of the school - he worked with the student council on issues related to charity and helping the disabled.
After graduating from school, Nick Vujicic continued his studies and received two university degrees - one in accounting, the second in the field financial planning. One day, when Nick was 19 years old, he was asked to speak to university students. His speech was supposed to take 7 minutes. Within 3 minutes of the speech, half the audience was crying. One girl came on stage to Nick and hugged him, crying on his shoulder with the words “No one ever told me that they loved me, no one ever told me that I was beautiful just the way I am. My life changed today."
After this, Nick finally realized that he had found the meaning of his life - and it lies in helping other people gain faith in themselves, joy in life, hope and inspiration.
In 2005, Nick received the very prestigious Young Australian of the Year award in Australia.
Today, Nick Vujicic is just over thirty. And this guy without arms and legs managed to achieve more than a huge number of people achieve in their entire lives.
Nick is the president of a charity organization and has his own motivational company, Attitude Is Altitude. Over the 10 years of his performances, Nick managed to travel all over the world, telling his story to millions of people, speaking to a wide variety of audiences.
During his speeches he often says: “Sometimes you can fall like this,” and he falls face first into the table he was standing on. Nick continues: “There are times in life when you fall and you don’t seem to have the strength to get back up. You wonder then if you have hope... I have neither arms nor legs! It seems that if I try to get up even a hundred times, I won’t be able to. But after another defeat, I don’t give up hope. I will try again and again. I want you to know that failure is not the end. The main thing is how you finish. Are you going to finish strong? Then you will find the strength to rise up - in this way.”
He leans his forehead, then helps himself with his shoulders and stands up.
People in the audience start crying.
Nick says:
"People say to me, 'How can you smile?' Then they realize that 'there must be more to it than meets the eye for a guy with no arms or legs to live a fuller life than I do.'
Nick Vujicic's wife and children
On February 12, 2012, Nik Vucic married a very beautiful girl Kanae Miahara. The wedding took place in California, and the newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Hawaii.
On February 14, 2013, Nick and Kanae had their first son, who was named Kiyoshi James Vujicic.
On August 8, 2015, Nick and Kanae had a second son, the baby was named Dejan Levi Vujicic.
Both children of Nick Vujicic are absolutely healthy.
UPD: On June 18, 2017, Nick Vujicic announced that he and his wife are expecting twins!
Nick Vujicic with his family:
In 2009, Nick Vujicic starred in the film " Butterfly Circus", telling about a man without arms and without legs and about his life.
Nick has traveled to more than 25 countries around the world, speaking at various universities and organizations. He appears in TV shows, writes books, and acts in films. His first book Life without limits"was published in 2010, and in 2012 it was translated into Russian.
In 2011, Nick Vujicic shot a stunning video for “Something More.” Be sure to check it out:
You've probably heard about a man like Nick Vujicic, he has neither arms nor legs, but he is strong in spirit! Incredible human endurance and desire to live a full life helped Nick find a family and help other people!
Nick Vujicic was born without arms and legs. When the father saw how a shoulder without an arm appeared from the womb of his wife, he could not stand it and ran out of the family room. When the doctor came out to him, he rushed to him and asked: “My son doesn’t have an arm?” The doctor replied that he had neither arms nor legs. It took the mother 4 months to come to her senses; she could not hold the child in her arms or put him to her breast.
Nick always tried to be an ordinary child, rejected any help. He has a semblance of a foot instead of a left note. Thanks to her, he learned to walk, which everyone could not believe for a long time. Nick learned to jump into the water and swim, lie on his stomach on a skateboard and push off with his left foot, write with a pen and use a computer.
However, at the age of eight, Nick almost gave up. School ridicule brought him down, and he decided to commit suicide. He said he wanted to sit in the water and tried to drown himself. He was stopped by the thought that his parents loved him and he loved them. Since then, his motto has been “Never give up!”
At the age of 19, while he was studying at the university, he was asked to speak to students. 7 minutes were allotted for the performance, however, after 3, the entire audience was sniffling. Nick talked about how every human being has value. At the end of the performance, a girl came up to him and asked him to hug him. Then she burst into tears on his shoulder and said that no one had ever told her that he loved her, that he had saved her life.
Since then, he has performed 250 times a year. He was invited to schools, nursing homes, and prisons. He became a professional speaker. He traveled to 44 countries, met with seven presidents, spoke from the rostrum in five parliaments, and in India gathered his largest stadium - 110 thousand people!
One of his hardest lessons is to laugh when it's hard. He calls his heel a ham, when children on the streets ask: “What happened to you?”, he answers in a hoarse voice: “It’s all because of cigarettes!”
Nick always ends his speeches with the words: “Sometimes you can fall, like this,” and falls on his face. - “In life, it happens that you fall, and it seems that you no longer have the strength to get up. Then you wonder: do you have hope? But know that failure is not the end!”
Today Nick lives in California, and on February 12, 2012, he married the beautiful Kanae Miahara. His life is full of both work and relaxation - in his free time from lectures and writing, Nick plays golf, likes to fish and surf.
And on February 14, an absolutely incredible event happened: Nick and his wife Kanae had a son, Kiesha James Vuychich, about which happy father reported on his Facebook page.
"Thank you all so much for your love and prayers! Kieshi James Vujicic - weight 8 lbs 10 oz (3 kg 600 g), height 21 ¾ inches (53 cm). Mom Kanae is doing great,” Nick wrote. Even before the birth of his son Nick wrote that his wife’s pregnancy was going well and an ultrasound showed that the child was completely healthy: “Ten fingers and ten toes!” the future father rejoiced.
