It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
