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Liz Murray Quotes

born 1980 United States

Elizabeth Murray (born September 23, 1980 New York) is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker. Murray's memoir Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard (2010) was a New York Times Best Seller; Murray was accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years.

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I was one of those people on the streets you walk away from.

The problem may be huge, but your job is not to fix the entire problem. It’s to do what you can with what you have.”

The 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.

I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams and I knew that my time was now or maybe never.

You don’t have to ‘wait until.’ You have something right now of value.

I like to ask people to think about the courage it takes for someone experiencing homelessness to knock on the door, asking for service. It’s very hard. It’s very vulnerable.

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.

We ate ice cubes because it felt like eating. We split a tube of toothpaste between us for dinner.

Eventually, as I was able to change my circumstances with that help, I went on to start a non-profit (and) began volunteering (so) that I could help (others).

I felt like I wasn’t going to make it. When I thought about my life in front of me, how I’m going to rise up to anything … it was so overwhelming.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Liz Murray (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.