Michelle Obama Quotes

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

I don't let people say mean things to me! I don't surround myself with people who'd want to do that.

If anyone is ever rude to you, then there's no need to hang out with them! Just find the people that make you feel good.

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

Make choices that are loving for yourself - with your diet, your relationships, and in speaking your loving truth - that are in alignment with what you want to be doing. When you see that in a person, you are seeing their passion and fulfillment, and that person feels good to you because they feel good to themselves. I know that I feel good and I think that comes across on stage; when I didn't feel good before, I think that came across on stage.

When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

The key is to just focus on the spots where the love is real, because you can just drive yourself crazy focusing on the negativity, focusing on the relationships that are irreparable and just aren't going to work, trying to convince the haters that you are indeed lovable. So much of that is wasted energy.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

People are great. But there's people who you get together with and you talk and you go away feeling energized, you feel inspired. And then there's people who you talk with and you go away feeling horrible, feeling drained, feeling like you're incapable of doing anything. Those people are psychic vampires and I now stay away from them.

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.