You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
MICHELLE OBAMAa happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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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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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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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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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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