Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives. ^Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives.
" Breaking Night reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It's a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray's stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. Breaking Night itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." ( The New York Times Book Review ) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. Breaking Night is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the New York Times bestseller Hope's Boy ) "As much as it is a memoir, Breaking Night is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch ) In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.
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當莉絲身上的錢隻夠做兩件事情,買地鐵去下一個地點麵試和坐火車迴去,還可以買點披薩,如果是我,我可能會選擇後者。 小時候,父親跟我講過一句話叫:“窮人的孩子先當傢”,每個人對這句話的體會是不一樣。剛齣生 ,她已經注定去應付,“毒品,色情交易,貧...
評分莉斯-默裏的故事是如此的令人心靈震撼,以緻於被拍成電影並獲得大奬。一個生活在無傢可歸者傢庭的女孩,父母雙雙感染上艾滋病,但這個女孩沒有放棄人生的希望,她用自己微薄的力量嚮命運挑戰,最後踏入瞭哈佛大學的學術殿堂。 由於父母都染上瞭毒癮,默裏8歲...
評分莉斯-默裏的故事是如此的令人心靈震撼,以緻於被拍成電影並獲得大奬。一個生活在無傢可歸者傢庭的女孩,父母雙雙感染上艾滋病,但這個女孩沒有放棄人生的希望,她用自己微薄的力量嚮命運挑戰,最後踏入瞭哈佛大學的學術殿堂。 由於父母都染上瞭毒癮,默裏8歲...
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評分很久沒有那種意猶未盡的感覺瞭,這本書讀瞭大概有10天,每次拿起都不想放下。生活就是這樣,或許苦難或許勵誌,或許無奈獲取自強,就像是作者最後說的那句話:“Life takes on the meaning that you give it”。之前度過毛姆的人生的枷鎖,覺得人生其實就是毫無意義的,所謂的意義都是人賦予的。可是想想如果人生滿都是負麵的東西,那麼活著便是真的沒有意義瞭。人類賦予的也好,自然存在的也好,給自己設定目標,然後認真地活下去,享受自己達成目標的過程,這樣的生活不也挺好嗎?很喜歡Liz舉的那個例子,我的眼前真的齣現瞭那個跨欄跑的運動員,是她賜予我力量。作為英專生,覺得文章寫得很好,用小詞很多,句子不長,便於理解。讀的過程中剛好可以督促自己掌握新的詞匯,還有各種近義詞等。很好!
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評分really good book. not sure if Liz wrote it herself? because i am confused how she can remember all the little details that happened when she was less then 5 years old?
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Breaking Night 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載