If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small… — Mignon McLaughlin Ashamed Copy Share Image
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. — Mignon McLaughlin Fantasies Copy Share Image
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than… — Mignon McLaughlin Executive Copy Share Image
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin Child Copy Share Image
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin Creative Copy Share Image
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin Boldness Copy Share Image
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. — Mignon McLaughlin Chains Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Desire Copy Share Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. — Mignon McLaughlin Animal Copy Share Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all — Mignon McLaughlin Business Copy Share Image
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin Consequence Copy Share Image
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin Communication Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. — Mignon McLaughlin Beautiful Copy Share Image
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. — Mignon McLaughlin Money Copy Share Image
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time… — Mignon McLaughlin Adolescence Copy Share Image
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. — Mignon McLaughlin Comfort Copy Share Image
Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're… — Mignon McLaughlin Kindness Copy Share Image
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. — Mignon McLaughlin Forgetting Copy Share Image
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. — Mignon McLaughlin About friendship Copy Share Image
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little… — Mignon McLaughlin Fire Copy Share Image
