Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , Hate , Beauty

“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Learning

“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

Love , Marriage

“Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Way

“Air that has been much quarreled in becomes very hard to breathe.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible they are right.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Way , Feeling

“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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

People

“All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Love , Women , Men

“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Life

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Courage

“When a stranger identifies you from a friend's description, it's just as well you didn't hear the description.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Sleep , Childhood

“If you made a list of the 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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

Hell

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love , Hate

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Pain , Pleasure , Knowledge , Nostalgia