But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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 was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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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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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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