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.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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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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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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When they go low, we go high.
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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,
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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