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
running people realizing
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
real matter faults
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
real fantasy neurotic
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
fun children real
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
loneliness insomnia reality
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
friendship believe real-friends
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
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.