80 percent of life’s most defining moments taking place by age thirty-five.
“I feel like I'm in the middle of the ocean. Like I could swim in any direction but I can't see land so I don't know which way to go.”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
“The only way to figure out what to do is to do- something.”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
“Falling in love never gets old. No matter how jaded you are, how much suffering love has caused you, a new love can’t help but make you feel hopeful and alive, like that first time. Maybe this time it’s more grounded- you have more experience, you’re wiser, you know you have less time- it your heart still leaps when you hear your lovers voice or see that text pop up on you phone.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's characters aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“I felt trapped in quicksand. Books were about movement. Beginning and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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