Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself. — Merle Shain Compassion Copy Share Image
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring. — Merle Shain Flower Copy Share Image
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope. — Merle Shain Courage Copy Share Image
Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be. — Merle Shain Friend Copy Share Image
“It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to… — Merle Shain Generation Copy Share Image
There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women,… — Merle Shain Certainty Copy Share Image
“ Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life… — Merle Shain Betting Copy Share Image
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if… — Merle Shain Acting Copy Share Image
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose… — Merle Shain Balance Copy Share Image
We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define… — Merle Shain Balance Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have… — Merle Shain Fortune Copy Share Image
It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to… — Merle Shain Connections Copy Share Image
There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned… — Merle Shain Being faithful Copy Share Image
Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their… — Merle Shain Alive Copy Share Image
Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for… — Merle Shain Affair Copy Share Image
The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is… — Merle Shain America Copy Share Image
Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all. — Merle Shain Advantage Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Agony Copy Share Image
when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you… — Merle Shain Life Copy Share Image
If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is… — Merle Shain Beginnings and endings Copy Share Image
