You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.
If you feel lucky, then you are.
What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.
It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.
It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.
I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.