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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.

Michelle Obama

failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
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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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
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.
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Care Education Health Pieces Truth
Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Life Myself Patience Teaching
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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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
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
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
It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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Carry Exception Myself World
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Different Thinking Yourself
I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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Believe Home Job Life Man 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.
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Husband Myself Photograph Smile
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
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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Control Focus Law Reading Yourself

And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.

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