The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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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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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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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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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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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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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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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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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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