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Mignon McLaughlin - From the Aging category:
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Anxiety category:
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Change category:
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Children category:
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Commerce category:
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Courage category:
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Critics category:
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Dissatisfaction category:
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Eroticism category:
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Expectation category:
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Exploration category:
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Fire category:
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)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Friendship category:
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Generosity category:
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Happiness category:
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Happiness category:
-The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960...
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: We got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Hope category:
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Humility category:
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Humour category:
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Ideas category:
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Influence category:
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Innocence category:
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Intellect category:
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Interest category:
Ours is not the only story, just the most interesting one. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Life category:
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Limitations category:
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Listening category:
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Love category:
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Money category:
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Procrastination category:
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Recognition category:
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Religion category:
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Responsibility category:
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Strength category:
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Suffering category:
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Suffering category:
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Technology category:
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Tradition category:
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Words category:
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Mignon McLaughlin - From the Writing category:
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. (Mignon McLaughlin)
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