三岁时意识到父母吸毒、八岁时乞讨、十五岁时母亲死于艾滋病、父亲进入收容所、十七岁时用短暂的两年时光以全优的成绩完成了别人需用四年的时间学完的高中课程，2000年获得纽约时报奖学金，进入哈佛大学学习，2001年为照顾生病的父亲转学到哥伦比亚大学，直至2006年其父也因艾滋病离世，随后返回哈佛大学，2009年最终从哈佛大学毕业，创立了自己的公司，以帮助更多处于逆境中的人在生活中取得成功，这就是《风雨人生路》的作者、主人公利兹· 莫里的人生经历。从无家可归的流浪女孩到世界顶尖大学的哈佛学子，利兹· 莫里的改变激励更多的人珍视现在、把握机遇、自强不息、感恩社会、完善自我。
风雨人生路》作者利兹· 莫里
您有否审视自己的内心，发现您的真正所需，对旧我做些改变，调整、完善自我，感恩、回报社会，让自己更满意、更欣喜地接纳自我，活出您的精彩？希望您看了利兹本人的精彩演讲和根据她所著述的《风雨人生路》，有所触动，有所启发，有所改变，有所提高！
《从无家可归到哈佛学子》 利兹·莫里（《Homeless to Harvard》Liz Murray）演讲节选
I don't know. I don’t know how long can you know that there is something bigger for you, and yet you ignore that.
我不知道。我不知道你要多久才能明白你有更重要的事要做，而你却仍旧忽视它。
Don’t we do that? We tell ourselves what? I’m gonna take on a bigger picture in myself, I really will recess my career, relationship, health.
我们不是这样吗?我们不是这样告诉自己吗?我真得对我的人生有个大计划，我真地会好好工作，处理好人际关系，保持健康。
When? Later! Right?
何时呢?以后吧!是吗?
We always do this. I am. I just can’t because I’m busy right now, and we get so wrapped up in the moment we make this promise to ourselves later.
我们经常这么做。我是这么做的。我不可以做仅因为我现在很忙。我们作出这样的反应，然后又对自己保证“以后……”。
I pushed away school to later. I pushed away taking, stepping into my life in the biggest sense. I push that away later. And when you push that away, you’ll push away even the most important things.
我推后了上学的时间，也推后了开始有意义的人生的时间。我把这件事拖后得太晚了。当你这样做时，你也会把，即使是最重要的事都拖后。
Cause I sat on my friend’s coaches and I realized they were complaining, and complaining and complaining, and I sat down and I said to myself. You know what, and I just stood up and look at my friends and say, “Guess what guys, I don’t know where I’m sleeping tonight, one of your houses maybe, maybe outside. I don’t know what I’m gonna eat, I don’t have... I don’t have... I don’t have...
因为我坐在朋友车上，我意识到，他们一直在抱怨、抱怨，不断地抱怨。我坐下对他们说：你们知道接下来怎么样吗，然后我站起来看着我的朋友，我说：“伙计们，你们猜怎么着，我不知道我今晚应该睡哪，也许住你们家，也许住外面。我不知道我该去哪吃饭，我没有这个……我没有那个……”
“But you know what I do have: two hands and two feet. I have a brain in my head and air in my lungs, and what else do I really need?”
“但是你们知道：我有两只手有两只脚，我的头里有大脑，我的肺里有呼吸，什么才是我真正需要的?”
Like what else do you really need to begin a today to lead the life you know you are meant to lead? You know in your heart what it is. And what more do you need to change before you step into that? I stood up, and I looked at them, and then next feeling which has been the biggest resource in my life since - “gratitude”.
就像是开始新的一天，什么才是你真正需要的？过一种你知道你想过的生活?你知道你心里想要什么。但是如何在得到这之前改变自己？我站起来，看着他们，这种感觉后来成为我生活中最大的品质：感激。
You can either pick one thing in life, resentment or gratitude, get on the side, I promise you. I looked at that moment and realized I may not have my mother ever again, but I had these resources. I had myself and I could go forward.
你可以选择一中放入生活，愤恨或感恩，选择一个立场，我向你保证。那一刻我看到并意识到我再也没有妈妈了，但是我有这些品质，我有我自己，我就能够继续前行。
I remember that the feeling inside of me, and a need to change my life, and that voice at the back of my head - it took on the specific question, and the question was “What if ...?”
我记得我内心的感受，我脑后面响起“必须要改变自己人生”的声音。它展现了一个很明确的问题，就是“如果......会怎样？”
You know that voice in the back of your head and said “what if……”? “What if I tried that much harder?” “What if I pushed one more time?” “What if ...?” It’s the part of you that dreams.
你知道，我的脑后响起一个声音:“如果…会怎样” “如果我再多努力一些呢?”“如果我再努力试一次会怎么样?”“如果......?”它是你梦想的一部分。
A disempowered conversation will do a couple of things that will look for blame, and it’s concerned with the past. It’ll go, “What happened before? Why didn’t it work out?” It will count what is not there.
让人失去动力的自我对话将会让你寻求可以责怪的事物，这种对话永远只是关乎过去。它会问：“过去发生了什么?为什么没有成功?”对话里只有虚无。
An empowered conversation is unconcerned with blame. It simply says, “what’s next?” and it steps forward with a willingness to be responsible for what happens next. That is the difference between empowered and disempowered conversation. And I stood at that doorway and I knew nothing in my history took away from the fact that I still had a choice.
让人有动力的自我对话没有责备。它只会说：“接下来怎么办?”并且你会为接下来发生的事情负责任。这就是让人有动力的自我对话和让人没有动力的对话之间的区别。我站在门口，我知道，过去所经历的都不会剥夺这个事实：我仍有选择。
Life is a miracle. You don’t have to be stuck in a situation that you are in. If there is something in your life that is holding you back, you have to identify what that is, because, I promise you, there is a way to break pasted.
人生就是一场奇迹。你不必受困于现在的处境。如果在你的生活中有些东西使你停滞不前，去认清那是什么。因为，我敢保证，必定会有一条出路。
I want you to identify that voice inside of yourself and begin to trust it. And ask yourself what is it that has been in my way and how do I unblock that? Dig deep inside.
我希望你能听从你内心发出的声音并且相信它。问问你自己，是什么在阻挡我前进?我该如何跨过这个障碍?更深地挖掘自己的内心。
Life does not wait for anyone, and your life isn’t later. Your life is right now.
人生不等待任何人，你的生活不在以后，而在当下。
根据丽兹的自传《风雨人生路》改编的电影梗概：丽兹出生在美国的贫民窟里，父母双双染上毒瘾，母亲患上了精神分裂症，最终均死于艾滋病。贫穷的丽兹经常出去乞讨、流浪，甚至捡拾垃圾箱里的食物裹腹充饥，历经了千辛万苦，受尽了百折千磨。 母亲的去世激发她必须改变自己的生活，她知道只有读书方能改变自身命运，于是她决定上高中，走出困境。丽兹的漫漫求学路坎坷多舛，最终她被哈佛大学录取，并获得了纽约时报的奖学金，成功毕业。演员托拉·伯奇精彩演绎了小女孩利兹克服困难、努力奋进的故事，她以细腻的情感精心刻画主人公的内心，塑造了一个可怜、可爱、可敬、可喜、可贺的利兹，感人至深，给观者带来强烈的心灵震撼！
