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Mignon Mclaughlin Inspirational Quotes (234)

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After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed after all, he does.
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When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
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Acedia is not in every dictionary just in every heart.
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
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Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
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Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
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If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
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Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.
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The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
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Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
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Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
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Others settle for small rewards the neurotic must always go for broke.
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What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
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If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
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Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
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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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Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
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