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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.

Michelle Obama

People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Father Gift People Time
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Deep Philosophy World
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Kind Oppression Power Ugly
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
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Fear Hide Mental People
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Control Lesson Life Yourself
You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
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.
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Failure Feeling Myself Plant Result Success
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What 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.
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Children Deep Grow Up Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Business Himself Mindset Problem See World

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