You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMALife 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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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.
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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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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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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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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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