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“The possibility for greatness and embarrassment both exist in the same space. If you're not willing to be embarrassed, you're probably not willing to be great.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“Supposed to” is a lie. A fairy tale. It is the stealer of peace and productivity. It is the leading cause of Obsessive Comparison Disorder with everyone who “has it better.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“You can't have a good story without a good struggle.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“Being twentysomething can feel like Death by Unmet Expectations.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“Don't ever, ever check Facebook when you're:

A. Depressed.
B. Drinking.
C. Depressed and drinking.
D. Unemployed.
E. Struggling with being blessed with singleness while some of your friends seem to be blessed with a Brad Pitt lookalike and that blazing white picket fence shining with the glory of the American Dream on steroids.
OR -- F. Anytime after 9:12pm.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“We're the most uber-connected, plugged in, engaged, informed, yet Insanely. Isolated. Generation in the history of the universe.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“If we keep trying to live other people's lives, who is going to live ours?”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“We’ve all experienced the frustration of our 20s going nothing as planned, so why do we still feel like we’re the only ones who are struggling? This lie that we’re all alone in our struggle is a powerful magnifier of depression, anxiety, and confusion in our 20s. It’s vital we blow this ugly lie up. So right now, if you feel like you’re stuck between being adult and child, neither growing nor grown. —you’re not alone. If you feel like you’re struggling through a Quarter-Life Crisis you swore you’d never have. —you’re not alone. If you’re wondering when you’ll ever feel like yourself again. —you are not alone. If you’re searching for a place to hang up your coat because it actually feels like home again. If you’re staring at your gray, cubicle walls wondering how the heck you ended up here. If you’re wondering if God changed His number and forgot to pass the message on to you. —you know what I’m going to say. Call a friend. It’s up to you to make the first move. Share war stories and strategies for dodging bullets. You’re not alone. And just knowing that fact can be enough to breathe life into that which has felt suffocating.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties

“Your 20s are not about finding home; your 20s are about finding the right place to build it.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties

“The most dangerous job you can have in your 20s is a comfortable one.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“And to not burn out on Adult Every-Day-Ness you need to take some Nothing Vacations. What’s a Nothing Vacation? It’s a vacation where you do, well, nothing. Absolutely. No sightseeing. No family. No friends. Nothing. My wife and I just agreed we’re taking one. Next month. No baby. No itinerary. Just sleep. Food. Books. Sleep. Food. Rinse. Repeat.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties

“Your grow INTO growing UP.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“Reality is what you decide reality is.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“Faith is to stop pretending like you have all the answers altogether, or that you even know the right questions.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“The possibility for embarrassment and greatness usually exist in the same space.”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties

“Want to know a sure-fire way to cut your Obsessive Comparison Disorder in half?

Cut your Facebook and TV time in half. This is the best set of blinders money can’t buy.

Facebook and TV take your Honda-Sized comparison problem and turn it into a Hummer — guzzling energy for no good reason other than to try and look cool.”
― Paul Angone

“Hey, does anyone have a good recommendation for a Thai restaurant downtown? Oh, and a good therapist who specializes in depression and an anxiety that feels like your heart has been injected with 1,500 milligrams of caffeine?”
― Paul Angone, 101 Secrets for Your Twenties

“Neither kids nor adults, somwhere between growing and grown, we were playing an extended game of make-believe that we were becoming full-functioning adults. I expected to hear our parents yelling to come home for dinner. But they just kept letting us play.”
― Paul Angone, All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job!

“Neither kids nor adults, somewhere between growing and grown, we were playing an extended game of make-believe that we were becoming full-functioning adults.”
― Paul Angone, All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job!

“A college diploma is no longer your golden ticket into DreamJobLand. Your diploma is merely your Pinky Toe in the Door. It’s the small sliver of light and the “Okay, you’ve got one minute.”

And what you do with that minute is the difference between crossing into DreamJobLand or traveling back to LivinginYourParentsHouseAgainVille.”
― Paul Angone

“The pain you are experiencing now may be your life's purpose later. And if not, it will at least make a good story!”
― Paul Angone, All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job!

“We dare not stereotype based on gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, but if you stereotype based on age you’ll have a front cover story.”
― Paul Angone