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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.

Michelle Obama

You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
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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End Grow Up Yourself
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
I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Achievement Myself Success Worth
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Control Lesson Life Yourself
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Deep Philosophy World
Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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Friendship Goodness Hurt Life Marriage People Relationship Right Trust
there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Effort Limitation Reward
My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Family Heart Mom Myself World
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
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Choice Forever Yourself
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Friendship Kindness Woman
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Father Gift People Time
But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Failure Feeling Myself Plant Result Success

It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.

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