Giving Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

“The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

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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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The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

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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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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

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One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

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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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Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

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I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

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Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.

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