Michelle Obama

So early in our lives we are shushed. And not just directly shushed but sometimes in our lives we’re treated too preciously. We may have a father that loves us and treats us like a doll. They don’t treat us like real beings and equal partners.

Oftentimes, it’s the way we react to change that is the thing that determines the overall experience.

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?

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

When I’m happier and healthier, my family is happier and healthier, and it affects how I interact with my friends and the people I work with.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Stay with me,’ he said, ‘until the sun goes out, the seas are parched, and the wind draws its last breath.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.