Mignon McLaughlin

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

—Mignon McLaughlin

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

—Mignon McLaughlin

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

—Mignon McLaughlin

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

—Mignon McLaughlin

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

—Mignon McLaughlin