Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlinwas an American journalist and author. In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books, entitled, The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 June 1913
CountryUnited States of America
anxiety coward chances-are
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
anxiety half drowning
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
mean doctors anxiety
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
anxiety neurotic accidents
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
worry anxiety anxious
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
confidence being-yourself anxiety
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
men ego cures
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
women littles able
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
american-journalist among count handful money ourselves people whom
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
american-journalist
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
society
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
courage gets matters minute next
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next
composed strength weakness
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show
american-journalist wants
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.