The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
MICHELLE OBAMAMy daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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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 stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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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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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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