Michelle Obama

The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy, it’s the country’s legacy.

Our first job in life as women, I think, is to get to know ourselves. And I think a lot of times we don’t do that. We spend our time pleasing, satisfying, looking out into the world to define who we are – listening to the messages, the images, the limited definitions that people have of who we are.

You know, it’s the silliness in me. It has always been there. I love to make people laugh. It comes from my family. My family is funny.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

[on the 2016 election] In light of this last election, I’m concerned about us as women and how we think. What is going on in our heads where we let that happen, you know?

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Don’t worry, be happy!

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

I love people who make me laugh.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

Let’s make ourselves happy