I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages -… — 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
