Quotes by Mary Schmich

Mary Schmich

A line from one of my 1997 columns – ‘Do one thing every day that scares you’ – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don’t believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Believe

Lines

Scare

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Children

Noble

Politician

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Advice

Like You

Youth

Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.

Alcohol

Instinct

Secret

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Gone

Knees

Missing

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Family

Nice

Sibling

Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I’ve been, phases I’ve been through, people I’ve loved or thought I did.

Book

Mirrors

Sight

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin’s cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

Coffee

Dream

New York

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Ballet Class

Dance

Inspirational

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

Feels

Magazines

Ugly

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Actors

Advice

Alcohol

Angle

Anna

Archivists

Art

Aunt

Average

Ballet Class

Baseball

Believe

Birthday

Book

California

Cells

Chicago

Children

Choices

Cities

Class

Coffee

Compliments You

Couple

Dance

Disappointment

Divorce

Don't Waste Your Time

Done

Dream

Dresses

Ecosystems

Family

Feel Better

Feels

Fiction

Figures

Firsts

Fishing

Friends Come And Go

Friendship

Funny

Gambling

Games

Gay

Gentleman

Gone

Grief

Grows

Gum

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Quotes by Mary Schmich

Mary Schmich

A line from one of my 1997 columns – ‘Do one thing every day that scares you’ – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don’t believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I’ve been, phases I’ve been through, people I’ve loved or thought I did.

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin’s cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

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