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Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#ahead #behind #sometimes #time #waste

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#age #am #i #i am #like

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#come and go #few #friends #get #go

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can. ↗

— Patricia Schroeder

#mood #sit #you

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#either #else #expect #fund #know

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. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#barcelona #berlin #chicago #coffee #constantly

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#closets #costume #day #drawers #dress

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#food #medicine #pain #separation #some

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#anticipate #anyone #close #death #else

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#before #fabulous #grasp #how #lay