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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• What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Power Of Forgiveness

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

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  Giving Up, Democracy, Firsts

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Giving Up, Self, Should Have

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.57, BookBaby

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• Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Dieting, Forget

  "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Hypocrisy, Unhappy

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• Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Listening, Want

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, 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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• If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Worst, Worst Things, Ifs

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, 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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• It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.111, BookBaby

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• The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

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  Past, Entrepreneur, Special

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

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• Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hope, Feelings, Permanent

  The Neurotic's Notebook ch. 5 (1963)

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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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