The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. — 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 often they… — Merle Shain 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 lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them… — Merle Shain Copy Share
It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are… — Merle Shain Copy Share
The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be. — Merle Shain 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 it would… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
