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
giving
Life takes on the meaning that you give 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.
mother dream one-day
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
goal focus may
Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.
ive-learned knows
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it,
bigger circumstances
You are bigger than your circumstances.
believe kind stride
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.
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.
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.
girl children smell
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
advantage life pass
I need to take advantage of life right now. If I don't, it will pass me by. It's just that easy.
new-york kids space
If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.
mother three months
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.