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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.

Michelle Obama

I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Beginning Beyond Hope Myself Place Understand
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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Alone Happiness Marriage Private Quiet
just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Different Thinking 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
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
But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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Failure Feeling Myself Plant Result Success
We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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Act Explanation Inspirational
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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Education Goodness Promise Woman Empowerment Worth Yourself
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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Change Goal Inspirational Myself Person
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Afraid Focus Hope Inspirational Women Empowerment
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
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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Change Life Myself Patience Teaching
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Challenge Change Easy Feeling Justice
I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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Education Failure Grow Up Love Money Music Myself Start

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