Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 3

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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 time to begin most things is ten years ago.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Procrastination, Years

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

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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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• We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Freedom, Want, Tyranny

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.87, BookBaby

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• The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Ignorance, People, Knows

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, 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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• 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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• Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Passion, Desire

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.31, BookBaby

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• Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Perfection, Littles, Tough

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

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• Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Anxiety

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.70, BookBaby

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• When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Falling In Love, Men, Bed

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.51, BookBaby

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• The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Food, Shopping, Cooking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.49, BookBaby

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• Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Risk, Catastrophe

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

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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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• 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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• You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Writing, Growth, Pages

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

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• There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, People, Literature

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

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• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Cancer, Grief

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, 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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• 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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• I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Fire, Smoking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.112, BookBaby

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• In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Dinner, Stuff

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• We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Three, Lamps

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

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• Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sex, Men, Average

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.44, 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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