"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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Source : "Liz Murray: 'My parents were desperate drug addicts. I'm a Harvard graduate'" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2010.

Liz Murray

#Mother Quotes #Dream Quotes #One Day Quotes

“I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.”
“Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.180, Penguin
“You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.”
“I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.”

Source : "Torrid-hitting Giant making name for self" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 2012.
“It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
“It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.”
“The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb”
“I was never in an episode of I LOVE LUCY!”

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