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.
MICHELLE OBAMADo 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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When they go low, we go high.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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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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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 hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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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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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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