16 Life Lessons We Have Learned From Grey's Anatomy

"We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future. As if figuring it out will somehow cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and our wildest hopes. But one thing is certain: When it finally reveals itself, the future is never the way we imagined it."

"Bad things happen, but you have to move past it. Leave it behind. The sooner, the better. Or it'll eat away at you and stop you from moving forward."

"We don't know what's coming around the corner. Anything can happen. To you, to me. Anything."

"I'm a human being. I make mistakes. I'm flawed. We all are."

"Sometimes people confuse other things for love. Like not wanting to be lonely, or afraid, or hurt."

"Don't spend all your time wondering what you are or who you like, or whether it's right for you or wrong for you. Just let yourself be happy."

"It's your life, nobody can make you do anything you don't want to do."

"Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don’t give a damn what anyone thinks. There are no teams here, no buddies. You’re on your own. Be on your own."

"If you love someone, you tell them. Even if you’re scared that it’s not the right thing. Even if you’re scared that it’ll cause problems. Even if you’re scared that it will burn your life to the ground, you say it, and you say it loud and you go from there."

"We're all going to die. We don't get much say over how or when, but we do get to decide how we're gonna live. So, do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More Compassionate? Decide. Breathe in. Breathe out and decide."

"Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people."

"You just have to get through high school. High school sucks for anyone who's the least bit different. But then there's college, and then out in the real world, you'll find where you belong."

"It always feels like there is just one person in this world to love, and then you find somebody else, and it just seems crazy that you were ever worried in the first place."

"Even if something seems like it cannot be fixed, it doesn't mean it's broken."

"People aren't always who you think they are. You learn to see through it. You learn fast."

"If you aren't willing to keep looking for light in the darkest of places without stopping even when it seems impossible, you will never succeed."