We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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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 look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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