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There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Category: Action Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Despair is anger with no place to go.
Category: Adversity Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
Category: Adversity Author: Mignon McLaughlin Source: The Neurotics Notebook
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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Category: Adversity Author: Mignon McLaughlin Source: The Neurotics Notebook
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Category: Age Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Category: Age Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Category: Age Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
Category: Age Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
Category: Age Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
Category: Age Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
Category: Alcohol Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
Category: Apologies Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
Category: Attitude Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.
Category: Attitude Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
Category: Body Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
Category: Boldness Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
Category: Boredom Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Category: Change Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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