Liz Murray Quotes

• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Life, Choices, Shapes

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• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Goal, Focus, May

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• There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

  Liz Murray

  Determination, Hard Work, Looks

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• You are bigger than your circumstances.

  Liz Murray

  Bigger, Circumstances

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• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Mother, Dream, One Day

  "Liz Murray: 'My parents were desperate drug addicts. I'm a Harvard graduate'" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2010.

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• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Mean, Years, People

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• I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

  Liz Murray

  I've Learned, Knows

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• Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

  Liz Murray

  Giving

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• One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

  Liz Murray

  Views, Giving, Achievement

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• But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

  Liz Murray

  Believe, Kind, Stride

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.200, Random House

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• Success creates opportunities for other people.

  Liz Murray

  Opportunity, People

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• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Giving, Water, Want

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• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Doors, People, Sick

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.317, Random House

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• Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.

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  Home, Night, Ideas

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• When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

  Liz Murray

  Leadership, Respect, Thinking

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• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Hands, People, Giving

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• 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.

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  New York, Kids, Space

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• My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.

  Liz Murray

  Mother, Dream, Feet

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• I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

  Liz Murray

  New York, Sleep, House

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• ... 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.

  Liz Murray

  Cold, Hungry, Said

  Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.7, Random House

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• 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.

  Liz Murray

  Eye, Disease, Months

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• 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.

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  Mother, Three, Months

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• 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.

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  Girl, Children, Smell

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