Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Merle Shain was a Canadian author and journalist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
Merle Shain quotes about
learning years agony
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
friends running strong
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.
divorce work-out persons
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 has ended simply as something that didn't work out.
land lost beginnings-and-endings
If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.
roles comfort chance
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.
might world window
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
sex deep-love fire
Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.
rivers laughing life-is-like
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.
people faithful infidelity
There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad.
dream destiny dare
Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
spring promise silent
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
healing past never-change
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.
generosity accepting
It takes great generosity to accept generosity.
eye men sight
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?