You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
MICHELLE OBAMAYour story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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For 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.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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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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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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