Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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 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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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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