Inspirational Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

— Mignon McLaughlin

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Despair is anger with no place to go.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God…

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

— Mignon McLaughlin

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

— Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

— Mignon McLaughlin