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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.

By Michelle Obama
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Michelle Obama is an American lawyer, writer, and the wife of former US President Barack Obama. She was a Chicago city administrator and community outreach worker, and during her time as First Lady, she focused her attention on poverty, education, and healthy living.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIndecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageUltimately, nothing in this life is ‘commonplace,’ nothing is ‘in between.’ The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge. [Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageResolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.

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