Quotes by Liz Murray

Liz Murray

… 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.

Cold

Hungry

Said

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.

Focus

Goal

May

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.

Months

Mother

Three

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

Believe

Kind

Stride

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

House

New York

Sleep

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

I've Learned

Knows

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.

Kids

New York

Space

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.

Giving

Want

Water

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.

Mean

People

Years

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.

Doors

People

Sick

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Achievement

Believe

Bigger

Children

Choices

Circumstances

Cold

Determination

Disease

Doors

Dream

Eye

Feet

Focus

Girl

Giving

Goal

Hands

Hard Work

Home

House

Hungry

I've Learned

Ideas

Kids

Kind

Knows

Leadership

Life

Looks

May

Mean

Months

Mother

New York

Night

One Day

Opportunity

People

Respect

Said

Shapes

Sick

Sleep

Smell

Space

Stride

Thinking

Three

Views

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Quotes by Liz Murray

Liz Murray

… 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 apartments in it. We’d raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

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.

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.

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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