Liz Murray is a popular American inspiration speaker. She got accepted into the prestigious Harvard University eventhough she was homeless in her high school years. In 2011 she received Alex Awards for her contributions. She hails from the Bronx, New York and she had a difficult childhood. Now at the age of forty she is using her life skills and experiences in life to inspire others. Liz Murray quotes are really motivating. She grew up in life without any guidance however she made her own plans to succeed. She lived in a homeless shelter and attended Humanities Preparatory Academy in Chelsea, Manhattan. For her education, she received a New York Times scholarship and got accepted to Harvard. Now she is also a school teacher for children with autism.
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1. 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 institutionalized for up to three months.
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2. “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.”
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3. 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.
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4. “I’m smart. I know I can succeed. I just need a chance. A chance to climb out of this place I’ve born in.”
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5. I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.
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6. “Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.”
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7. 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.
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8. “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.”
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9. “One point of view gives a one dimensional world.”
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10. “Sometimes I feel like there is skin upon the world. And those of us who are born under it, can see threw it.”
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11. I’ve learned in my life that you really don’t know what’s possible until you’re already doing it.
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12. “I knew at that moment I had to make a choice … I could submit to everything and live a life of excuses, or I could push myself … I could push myself and make my life good …”
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13. “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.”
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14. “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.”
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15. “I knew at that moment I had to make a choice. I could submit to everything that was happening and live a life of excuses or I could push myself make my life good.”
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16. “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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17. ‘Homeless person or business person, doctor or teacher, whatever your background may be, the same holds true for each of us: life takes on the meaning that you give it.”
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18. “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.”
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19. “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.”
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20. “Dream, but don’t sleep.”
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21. “You are bigger than your circumstances.”
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22. “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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23. “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.”
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24. “Sleeping in a hallway around Bedford Park later that week, I took out my blank transcripts and filled in the grades I wanted, making neat little columns of A’s. If I could picture it-if I could take out these transcripts and look at them-then it was almost as if the A’s had already happened. Day by day, I was just catching up with what was already real. My future A’s, in my heart, had already occurred. Now I just had to get to them.”
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25. “My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.”
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