Never forget the people who are there for you in the dark and in the light.
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Quotes tagged ‘20-something’
Take mental health days.
The people in your life should lift you up and make you better in some sort of way. Don’t let anyone bring you down. It’s your life. Not theirs. Make sure the relationships you have are good for you and the other person involved. Every friendship, every relationship, should include both parties maki…
A liberal arts degree actually is good for something. Because of its diversity, the liberal arts provide a surprisingly good base for growth and learning.
Money isn’t everything, but it makes everything easier.
Books are more valuable than gold. Every book you read gives you a shortcut to decades-worth of experience and learning, which enables you to go farther, faster.
Block your ex on every social media platform. Trust me.
Your parents only want what is best for you.
There is nowhere you ‘should be by now.’ All life paths are different and equally valid.
You aren’t special and you won’t always get your way. The real world is not fair and it does not care about you. You are in fact capable of accomplishing anything, but it’s not going to be easy.
Even your dream job sucks sometimes. Even the love of your life gets on your nerves sometimes.
Sex gets better.
Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!
Nobody knows anything when they are in their mid twenties.
There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wro…
The goal of life is not to live comfortably. Comfortable is a quicksand. You must keep moving forward or agree to sign the waiver that you understand the risk of being suffocated by perks, 401K’s and ‘well hey, at least it’s a job.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Surviving your 20s is sometimes nothing more glamorous than just holding on for dear life on the back of an inner tube like a kid being whipped around by a speedboat…And your only choice of survival is to just let go.
Success in your twenties is more about setting the table than enjoying the feast.
Our twenties are about what we plant in the ground, not about what we harvest. We can’t keep pulling our seeds out of the dirt before it has time to grow.