Liz Murray Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.
• Life takes on the meaning that you give it.
• 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…
• 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…
• I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it,
• 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…
• 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,…
• My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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'.…
• 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…
• I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
• 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…
• There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.
• One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

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