If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
MICHELLE OBAMA
His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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Failure 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.
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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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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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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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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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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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