One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Agony 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
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. — Merle Shain Blessing 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 Different 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
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
Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still. — Merle Shain Forget 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
Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be. — Merle Shain Friendship 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
when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you. — Merle Shain World 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 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
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
Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself. — Merle Shain Compassion 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 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
There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we… — Merle Shain Courses 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 Collections 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
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
