Liz Murray Quotes

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

My message always is: No matter where you are from, no matter what past you have, it is all about your future and your goals.

I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.

You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

You can do anything you want to do.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.