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From Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
- The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
- Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
- We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
- Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
- Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
- When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
- I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper,…
- Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
- Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next
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