Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAI’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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When they go low, we go high.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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My daughters are 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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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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