533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you’ll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there.

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they’d only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Always live up to your standards – by lowering them, if necessary.

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don’t.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them – when in fact that is the only time it is for them.