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.
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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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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When they go low, we go high.
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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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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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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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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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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