Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhat 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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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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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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When they go low, we go high.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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