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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

Michelle Obama

You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Choice Forever Yourself
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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Control Focus Law Reading Yourself
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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Moments Myself See
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
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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Hurt Myself Person Understand
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
[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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Creation Live World Yourself
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Father Gift People Time
Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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Age Children Enough Investment Myself Survive Young
there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Effort Limitation Reward
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
It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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Carry Exception Myself World
Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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Different History Myself Past
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Fear Hide Mental People
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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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

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