Mignon McLaughlin Quotes and Quotations
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show. For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not. Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
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