Liz Murray Quotes

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.

Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but it made me stronger. I haven't lost my mind, I haven't become a dope fiend, I'm not a drug pusher, I'm not a stick-up man.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.