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Mélanie Berliet

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“Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
Tagged: Context
“My father taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word. My mother showed me how to think for myself and to use my voice.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
Tagged: Parents, What I Learned From My Parents
“Looking back on it now, I think my parents appreciated my feistiness and I’m glad for it. It was a flame inside me they wanted to keep lit.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
“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.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
Tagged: Failure, vulnerability
“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”? I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel. I’ve heard about the swampy parts of the internet that question everything about me, right down to whether I’m a woman or a man. A sitting U.S. congressman has made fun of my butt. I’ve been hurt. I’ve been furious. But mostly, I’ve tried to laugh this stuff off.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
Tagged: Story, Your Story, Life
“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.”
— Michelle Obama, Becoming
Tagged: Growing Up, Getting Older, Choosing A Career
“The true ending to my story will be when my traumas find a purpose — specifically, helping others who are going through their own trauma and feeling hopeless and alone.”
— Melissa Lafsky, What Do You Do When Someone Steals The Worst Day Of Your Life?
Tagged: Loss, Trauma, Pregnancy, Stillbirth
“If every mountain overlooked a parallel scene, if every flower bloomed in uninspired ways, the Earth would not steal us of our breath. Use this as a lesson. Your eyes, your hands, your marvelous smile – those are all your unique contribution to the matchless beauty of nature. You are a stunning rarity; you don’t need to be fixed.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete
Tagged: Words of Encouragement, Words of Encouragement For Hard Times, beauty, You're Amazing, Healing, Fix You
“Do not hide your wounds, for even flowers bloom within concrete fractures and damaged fragments make up the most intricate mosaics.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete
Tagged: Flower, Flowers, Recovery, Strength In Pain