Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Hate, Eye

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.23, BookBaby

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• Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.33, BookBaby

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• We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Running, Time

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Freedom, Anger, Honor

  The Neurotic's Notebook ch. 7 (1963)

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• What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Change, Moving Forward, Pay The Price

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Being Yourself, Kindness, Compassion

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Yesterday, Effort

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Giving Up, Democracy, Firsts

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Desire, Three, Modern Life

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.71, BookBaby

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• A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Marriage, Firsts, Hotel

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Best Love, Women, Heart

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Depression, Together, Said

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Worship, Wise Words, Undoing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Trouble

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Blessing, Trying

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Women, Brave

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

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  Worst, Worst Things, Ifs

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Kindness, People

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.46, BookBaby

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• For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Night, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Matter, Infatuation

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Regret

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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