WORDS OF WISDOM
F ormer US First Lady Michelle Obama is as inspiring as ever in her memoir Becoming. Here are 10 powerful quotes from the book to get you motivated. 1 There’s still a lot I don’t know about America, about life and about what the future might bring, but I do know myself. 2 If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s the power of using your voice. 3 It’s one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place. It’s another thing entirely to get the place itself unstuck. 4 I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be. 5 My job was to be myself, to speak as myself. And so I did. 6 Even if we didn’t end up winning, we were making progress that mattered. 7 Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. We were planting the seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient. 8 For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end. 9 There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. 10 Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.