“Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know.”— Emery Lord, amazon.com
“You don’t have to change the world or find your one true purpose to lead a meaningful life. A good life is a life of goodness — and that’s something anyone can aspire to, no matter their dreams or circumstances.”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. They won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg. They won’t have obituaries that run in newspapers like this one. But that doesn’t mean their lives will lack significance and worth. We all have a circle of people whose lives…”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of th…”— Stephen Colbert, departments.knox.edu
“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“If you’re lonely, bored or unhappy, remember you are…young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.”— Ezra Koenig, teenvogue.com
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?’”— Leonardo Dicaprio, peggy8_8.tripod.com
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I became the youngest world champion ever when I was just twenty. 26-27 – they’re your peak years. Just imagine what time I will be running then.”— Yohan Blake, esquire.co.uk
“Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.”— Kurt Vonnegut, chicagotribune.com
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”— Franz Kafka, kafka-online.info
“Kids feel so strongly about what’s going on today and what’s happening to the world, and that’s very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.”— Carl Hiaasen, washingtonpost.com
“Women want to be seen as younger but get offended when you call them girls.”— T.J Miller, twitter.com
“Don’t waste your energy and your youth trying force a relationship into existence. Your time will come. But in the meantime, go out there and live.”— Nelisa Khwela, thoughtcatalog.com