Inspirational Quotations by Mignon McLaughlin

  • It is important to our friends to believe
    that we are unreservedly frank with them,
    and important to friendship that we are not.
    From Issue 15
  • Every society honors its live conformists
    and its dead troublemakers.
    From Issue 53
  • In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
    From Issue 171
  • We are like people with short-term leases on
    summer cottages; we can never seem to
    make our provisions come out even with our stay.
    From Issue 185
  • What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
    Topic: Forgiveness
    From Issue 335
  • Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
    Topic: Love
    From Issue 335
  • Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
    Topic: Courage
    From Issue 340
  • We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
    From Issue 340
  • Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
    Topic: Life
    From Issue 342
  • A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
    From Issue 375

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