You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25.

You need you. Your time is your own and it is fine.

It’s ok to work at a job you enjoy that doesn’t make you miserable even if it’s not a career and it won’t “lead to anything.”

Your life is not a narrative. It is not leading to anything, there is no overarching thesis, it does not have themes beyond the usual shared cultural experiences of your time and place. This is ok. It does not mean that your life is without purpose or meaning.

It’s ok not to like or get along with the vast majority of people you encounter.

Failure is temporary if you’re still alive.

People are both much better and much worse than you’d suspect.
Your power does not come from money or beauty, but from seeing life steadily and wholly, from a curious and thoughtful mind, and from your ability to say no when you want to, and yes when you want to, and I don’t know when you don’t know.

There will be bad times, maybe lots of bad times, but not only bad times.

Life might be a long series of starting over, and that’s alright.

You’re really cool, you’re really beautiful, you’re really special. Really. Not to everyone, but to a lot of someones sometimes.