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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• 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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• We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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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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• 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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• 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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• Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Littles, Murder

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• Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Differences, Helping, Seizing

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

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• Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Running, People, Justice

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

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• Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Witty, Sex, Revenge

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.111, 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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• Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.36, BookBaby

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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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• 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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• There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Motivational, Women, Procrastination

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, 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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• 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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• We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Furniture, Motive

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.45, BookBaby

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• With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Years, Society, Year One

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.74, BookBaby

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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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• Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Goes On, Body, Flesh

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, 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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• Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Dream, Children

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.39, BookBaby

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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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• 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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