One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Agony Copy Share Image
Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all. — Merle Shain Advantage Copy Share Image
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope. — Merle Shain Courage Copy Share Image
Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still. — Merle Shain Forget 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 Cheated 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 Answers Copy Share Image
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with… — Merle Shain Work 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
Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon. — Merle Shain Contractions Copy Share Image
Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport. — Merle Shain Boys Copy Share Image
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. — Merle Shain Blessing Copy Share Image
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even… — Merle Shain Book Copy Share Image
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach… — Merle Shain Chance 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… — Merle Shain Arteries Copy Share Image
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… — Merle Shain Best marriage Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other… — Merle Shain Boring 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… — Merle Shain Benefits Copy Share Image
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you… — Merle Shain Friend Copy Share Image
One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things… — Merle Shain Amputation 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
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
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack.… — Merle Shain Decide 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
Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who… — Merle Shain Add 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 Bags 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
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
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
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring. — Merle Shain Flower Copy Share Image
Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself. — Merle Shain Compassion Copy Share Image
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? — Merle Shain Black Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are… — Merle Shain Cynical 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
“ Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so… — Merle Shain Suffers Copy Share Image
