Being in your 20s can be a scary and confusing shit show, but also invigorating, unforgettable and filled with lessons that you can carry with you for life. It’s all in what you make it.
“Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn’t believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.” – Kristen Bell
“I’m never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.” –Meryl Streep
“When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn’t go over a cliff.” – Chaka Khan
“I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it’s tougher to be in your 20s because you’re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.” – Nigel Cole
“Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties… I don’t know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they’re the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they’re scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they’re avoiding commitment altogether.” – Lena Dunham
“I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone’s twenties are documented it’s not always going to be pretty.” – Sienna Miller
“I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realize that you don’t really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected… You just never know what’s going to happen. –Reese Witherspoon
“As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.” – Ben Stiller
“If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!'” -Queen Latifah
“When I was in my 20s, I was a lost soul. Your 20s are about finding your soul.” –Oprah Winfrey
“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
“I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.” -Amy Poehler
“It made me want to look at myself and see what behavior I want to bring into my 30s, and what I want to leave in my 20s… I’m such a people-pleaser and from an unstable background. I translate too many things into guilt. I’m ready to let go of that,” -Drew Barrymore told People on her 30th birthday.
“It was the age where I reevaluated everything — how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I’ve wasted trying to find the right man. It’s like, if I could go back and do it again, I would have taken guitar lessons or something. I would have put my energy into something that paid off in the end, instead of trying to improve myself for men. Oh, the time and the energy, trying to impress somebody who was actually a big jerk.” – Amy Adams
“How we talk to ourselves matters. Even our worst enemies don’t talk about us the way we talk to ourselves. I call this voice the obnoxious roommate living in our head. It feeds on putting us down and exploiting and magnifying our insecurities and doubts. I wish someone would invent a tape recorder that we could attach to our brains to record everything we tell ourselves. It would shock us to hear it played back.” -Arianna Huffington
“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., Untitled
“Your 20s were for ‘ducking up,’ as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. Now you get to live with that knowledge under your belt… I’m hitting a major milestone: 30, or as I like to call it, the Cut the Bullshit and Go Be Awesome stage.” -Olivia Wilde
“I’m actually happier with my body now… because the body I have now is the body I’ve worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn’t enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else’s” -Cindy Crawford
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