Mignon McLaughlin

1. "Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."
2. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
3. “Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”
4. "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
5. “For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
6. “If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”
7. ”If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.”
8. ”I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.”
9. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
10. “It is important to our friends that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.”
11. “It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
12. ”It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
13. “Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”
14. “Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.”
15. “No one really listens to anyone else. Try it for a while, and you'll see why.”
16. "Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show."
17. “The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”
18. ”The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
19. ”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.”
20. “The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”
21. "To be lucky in love requires falling in love many times - and always with the same person."
22. "What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly."
23. “What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
24. "When hope is hungry, everything feeds it."