Desire Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

“Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.”

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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

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We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

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We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

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

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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

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In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

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Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

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