2. The hardest thing to realize about love is that there's never enough of it.
3. People want to be good.
4. It's impossible to divide your time evenly between a million different things. Learning the principles of time management is one of the most important parts of growing up. A lot of us juggled high school with jobs, sports, school plays, time with family, relationships, and volunteer work. We learned how to prioritize and how to find the right balance. These lessons will prove to be the most valuable to us when we're in college as well as later on in life. But I learned that the most important thing to remember when it comes to managing your time is that you can't do it all.
5. Try your hardest to do the right thing, even if the right thing isn't popular.
6. ...But it's important to keep in mind that one mistake isn't going to define you for the rest of your life. We're young. We'll make mistakes.
7. Sometimes, short stories have no underlying meaning. Sometimes, the stories are just short.
8. There will be times when the customer is definitely wrong--there's just nothing you can do about it.
9. Crunchy peanut butter is better.
10. If you want to be friends with somebody, you usually have to work pretty hard for it. It's not always as simple as just having a class together and favoriting each other's tweets. In fact, if you want anything bad, you gotta fight for it.
11. Being nice pays off.
12. Food solves a lot of things.
13. Sometimes you may be the only one who's right, even if nobody else agrees with you. Trust yourself. Stick to your guns.
15. It's okay to do things alone and to want to do things alone. See a movie, read a book, or take a walk. It's equally as important to get to know yourself as it is to get to know other people.
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17. The simplest and often times the best thing that you can do for others is display genuine gratitude. Always take the time to thank people--teachers who wrote recommendation letters, friends who did a favor, co-workers who picked up shifts. It'll make you feel better at the end of the day.
18. Speaking of feeling better at the end of the day, never underestimate the healing properties of a hot shower and a good night's sleep. Laughter is also the best medicine--that is a cliche that is also true. I recommend Demetri Martin's stand-up routine on Netflix, or any YouTube compilation of the funniest New Girl moments. Phone a friend. Buy yourself an ice cream. You won't regret it.
19. The scariest moment is always just before you start.
20. Fighting fire with fire can be surprisingly effective.
21. Education isn't a gun held to your head--it's a weapon in your hands.
22. Sometimes all you can say is "yikes" and move on.
23. There's such a thing as a healthy amount of procrastination. I've found that if I try to accomplish something all at once, the result is much less gratifying. Sometimes it's necessary to let things sit for a while, to return with an open-mind later on. You don't have to fix everything right now.
24. Life isn't a support system for art--it's the other way around.
25. Reading for pleasure is cool. So is making mix CDs.
26. Rooting for the villain is useless.
27. "The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you'll let things upset you." -Lost In Translation (filed under Quotations That Turned Out to be Applicable)
28. If you're excited about something, you have to work at it.
29. More good days will come.
30.A year is much shorter than it sounds.
