Michelle Obama

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

My number one daily habit is to give myself permission to be happy. It’s physical and mental; it’s my diet, physical activity, and emotional state. That’s all tied together.

If we don’t teach our young girls to speak at an early age, that doesn’t just happen.

Choose people who lift you up.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.