I remember being 19 and expecting to wake up knowing the answers to all of life's questions on my 20th birthday. Weirdly, (SUPER ANNOYINGLY) I felt the same way I did as a teenager. That was until I learned that your twenties are a lot of things. They were exciting,confusing, filled with laughter, enlightening and anything but easy. For some reason I thought college students were actual real-life adults (I took that back the moment I overflowed the college dorm washing machine by adding too much soap). These quotes helped me survive my first year as a "Twenty Something Year old" ...

1. “People say a lot of things in summer that they do not mean in winter.”

– Unknown

2. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.“

—Martin Luther King

3. “It is what it is. It was what it was.”

– Unknown

4. “You’ll be OK! Nothing is ever that bad. Trust me…give it 72 hours. Three sleeps can almost fix anything”

—Drake

5. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh

6. “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now."

— Vincent Van Gogh

7. “Your opinion about yourself is the only one that matters. So fall in love. As hard and as deep as possible - with the only person who it makes sense to, you.”

— Reyna Biddy

8. “So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”

― N.H. Kleinbaum, "Dead Poets Society"

9. “If you can’t beat fear, Just do it scared.”

—Glennon Doyle Melton

10. “Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t just settle for it.”

-Unknown

11. “Look in the mirror. You are now looking at the person responsible for your happiness.”

--Charles Orlando

12. “Another person's actions are never really about you.”

—Unknown

13. “A relit cigarette will never taste the same.”

—Unknown

14. “Growth is painful, change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

—Mandy Hale

15. “Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.”

-Stephen Labossiere

16. “You become like the five people you spend the most time with--choose carefully.”

17. “Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

—Christine Feehan

18. “Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”

--Paul Coelho

19. “I am mine before I am anyone else’s.”

—IN

20. “Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology.”

21. “There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame, but, if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going you'll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. “

— Taylor Swift