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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,

Michelle Obama

It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Direction Live Plant Possible Success
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Deep Philosophy World
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Friendship Kindness Woman
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Control Lesson Life Yourself
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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Care Establishment Fundamental Path People Problem Thinking
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
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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Hurt Myself Person Understand
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Feeling Goodness Hurt Relationship Right
I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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Husband Myself Photograph Smile
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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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Hope Improvement Mindset Myself
As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance

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