I choose to believe that there is no “best time of life.” Your whole life can be beautiful if you choose to make it that way.

the seemingly happiest and fulfilled people are the ones always ready and willing to give.

If we never take a moment to tell our mind and body “Hey. I hear you. I hear you trying to keep me safe. Thank you,” we will never work in harmony with our mind.

When your brain is sending you anxious or fearful signals and emotions, it’s trying to help you. It’s trying to warn you or protect you.

if I never tried, I figured I’d never fail.

Another way to curb this idea of thinking that life ends in your mid to late twenties, is to set a goal now to always stay curious and enthusiastic about what life has to offer.

For example, if your parents weren’t aggressive or emotionally harmful, they were actually pretty good, but neither of them ever really expressed their emotions or made you feel like you could, that is something that can require a healing process, or more so, an emotional learning process. Nothing here was intentionally harmful, you just never

If you make better choices while you’re young, it gives you more choices as you get older. We need to make decisions not just with the current version of ourselves in mind, but also the future version of ourselves in mind.

Formal education teaches you how to learn. Self-education only works when you’ve learned how to love to learn, which takes more intention because you have no due dates or deadlines.