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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.

Michelle Obama

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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Learning Myself Value Voice
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Children Feeling Investment Worth
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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Beginning Beyond Hope Myself Place Understand
We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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Act Explanation Inspirational
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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Carry Deserve Existence History Remember Tolerance
What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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Family God Man Myself
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Moment Ourselves Present
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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Care Establishment Fundamental Path People Problem Thinking
Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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Children Deep Grow Up Myself Philosophy Thinking
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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Age Children Enough Investment Myself Survive Young
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
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.
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Believe Goal Live People Success
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

Alone Carry Challenge Change Deserve Existence History Remember See Tolerance
At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Hope Improvement Mindset Myself

No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.

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