Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I am mentally strong.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

I've always been good at handling stuff mentally.

I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.

Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.

Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.