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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result

Michelle Obama

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Care Education Health Pieces Truth
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Character Goodness Success Yourself
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.
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Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Afraid Focus Hope Inspirational Women Empowerment
I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Comfortable Hate Honesty Myself
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Husband Myself Photograph Smile
You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Decision Fear Possible 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
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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Achievement End Growth Journey Myself See
In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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Myself Need Perfection Road Wrong
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Carry Deserve Existence History Remember Tolerance
I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Beginning Beyond Hope Myself Place Thinking Understand Yourself
a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Alone Happiness Marriage Private Quiet
What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Family God Man Myself
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Kind Oppression Power Ugly
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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Character Life People Relationship Respect Value Word

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result

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