Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

A lot of times, we get into relationships, and we go in, and we take our old ways. If we take that old baggage into something new, it will never work.

I will definitely give myself a second chance. Either arranged or love, I will definitely marry again.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended ... and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.