[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
MICHELLE OBAMAFor me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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When they go low, we go high.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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