“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.”— Paul Angone, amazon.com
“Life will never feel like it’s ‘supposed to…’ If always trying to live like we’re ‘supposed to,’ we’re never going to actually live.”— Paul Angone, amazon.com
“You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.”— Louis C.K., thrillist.com
“The 20s? My title for that period of my life would be, ‘It was the Worst of Times, it was the Worst of Times…' Did I mention it was the hardest time of my life?”— Lisa Kudrow, beeper117.tripod.com
“20-somethings have the tendency to imagine that their 20s are the last chance they’re going to have to experiment, explore, and party. This is a false premise. Restaurants and cafes continue to let people over 29 through their doors. They even serve them alcohol.”— Holden Desalles, thoughtcatalog.com
“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“You know what? Forget what I just said. You’re already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. Y…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“My sisters grew up with me. They have seen me at my best and at my worst. They know my quirks and insecurities, as well as my weaknesses and best assets. They have witnessed my tears, my failures, my smiles, and my successes. At the end of the day, regardless of my attitude or my mistakes, my sister…”— Kelly Joyce, thoughtcatalog.com
“…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.”— Ruth Reichl, hbr.org
“You can try on different personalities like they're clothing for as long as you want, but I guarantee that the outfit you were originally wearing will always be the one that fits best.”— Ryan O'Connell, amazon.com
“Do you want it bad enough? Does the fear of being filled with regret in your thirties trump your fear of living today?”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you grow up in New York City and you’re paying attention, you have a better spidey sense than anyone. It prepares you well for the rest of the world. You learn to listen to the hair on the back of your neck.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, variety.com
“We’re going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, reddit.com
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com