The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life… — 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 Copy Share Image
The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself. — Merle Shain 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
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if… — Merle Shain 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 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 Copy Share Image
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let… — 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… — Merle Shain 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 give. In… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
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
