Liz Murray
Liz Murray
Elizabeth "Liz" MurraySeptember 23, 1980) is an American inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth23 September 1980
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
changeable impressed life
Then you kind of look around and say, what else can life do? Does it have to be negative? You become impressed with -- it's changeable and things don't have to be the way they are.
beings change front human perspective programs resources
But they can change and I should help, and they are human beings and they can do it to, but they just need that right perspective and the right programs and resources in front of them.
choices shapes fork-in-the-road
This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
determination hard-work levels
There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.
mean years people
In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.
views giving achievement
One point of view gives a one dimensional world.
giving
Life takes on the meaning that you give it.
giving water want
If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.
ive-learned knows
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it,
doors sick people
Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.
opportunity people
Success creates opportunities for other people.
cold hungry said
... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.
hands people giving
The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
eye disease months
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.