More From Mary Schmich
- "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."
- "I couldn’t have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother’s death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation."
- "You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same."
More In Birthday
- "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."― Voltaire
- "If there’s one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy’s reserve."― Bindi Irwin
- "I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he’s made of sugar."― George Saunders