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
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.
new-york sleep house
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
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.
opportunity people
Success creates opportunities for other people.
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.
respect thinking people
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.
views giving achievement
One point of view gives a one dimensional world.
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.