Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAChanging 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
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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Life 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.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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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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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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