Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
MICHELLE OBAMAThis 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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When they go low, we go high.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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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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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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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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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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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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