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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.50, BookBaby

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.94, BookBaby

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

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

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

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

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

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

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

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

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

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

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

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

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