Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Inspirational Copy Share Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel… — Mignon McLaughlin Audience Copy Share Image
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's… — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. — Mignon McLaughlin Attitude Copy Share Image
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought… — Mignon McLaughlin Alive Copy Share Image
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with… — Mignon McLaughlin Cottages Copy Share Image
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. — Mignon McLaughlin Flower Copy Share Image
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin Change 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 Actor Copy Share Image
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. — Mignon McLaughlin Atheist 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 Entrepreneur Copy Share Image
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. — Mignon McLaughlin God Copy Share Image
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin Affair Copy Share Image
