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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.

Michelle Obama

Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Fear Hide Mental People
We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
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
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Change Focus Live Photograph Reality
It 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.
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Direction Live Plant Possible Success
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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Care Establishment Fundamental Path People Problem Thinking
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Control Lesson Life Yourself
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth
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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Education Failure Grow Up Love Money Music Myself Start
The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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Believe Goal Live People Success
Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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Believe Direction Ideal Lost Myself Need Ourselves Reality True
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Fame Hate Success
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.
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Energy Goal Grow Up Investment Lesson Negative Oneself True
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

At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.

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