Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Merle Shain was a Canadian author and journalist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
dream destiny dare
Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
learning years agony
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
love fear heart
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
strong men white
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.
past life-is never-change
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
play two want
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
inspirational fear unrequited-love
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.
both friendship gift given giver giving goes work
Friendship is the gift that goes on giving and is a gift to both the person given to and to the giver as well. But to really make it work it isn't enough to give to another person, you have also to let them give to you.
again husband marry rich sort
If I were to marry again tomorrow, I wouldtn't give up one friend. I'd take them all with me as a sort of dowry and tell my new husband that he was getting a rich wife.
men cynical cynicism
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
strong taken mean
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 given to often feel that they are not.
giving careful values
you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.
girl sports sex
Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.
life strong lying
The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.