“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I felt I had failed because I wasn't looking out at the greatest horizon, or swimming with the strongest current, or battling the biggest waves... Now, I find myself content, utterly content, to look at the horizon rather than chase after it.”— John Green, youtube.com
“My advice for navigating the treacherous waters of life after school: Find someone who’s doing something you want to do better than you can do it, and listen to them”— John Green, youtube.com
“The real world does have this interesting mix of, like, crushing monotony and paralysing terror.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Being an adult means knowing yourself. It means listening to your own needs. It means understanding which kind of lifestyle you want to be living and then pursuing it unapologetically.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’ve kept going, even when I really didn’t want to and would have preferred to just curl up in bed and sleep forever and ever.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“Been living in an idea An idea from another man's mind Maybe I'm a fool”— Frank Ocean, open.spotify.com
“Maybe I'm a fool Maybe I should move And settle, two kids and a swimming pool”— Frank Ocean, open.spotify.com
“Hey, I’m not incompetent because I got famous, I’m incompetent because I’m a pathetic waste of humanity.”— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com
“I don't think I can call myself an adult until I figure out how to use bleach in the laundry.”— Anna Kendrick, twitter.com
“Hi, I'm Anna, I'm alone tonight and I'm looking for a strapping muscular man to come over because butternut squash is hard to dice.”— Anna Kendrick, twitter.com
“Twenty-somethings who don’t feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.”— Meg Jay, amazon.com
“At some point we all reach that moment where it’s such a waste of energy to act as if you know things that you really don’t. It’s really kind of liberating to be okay with that.”— Grace Helbig, time.com