Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Merle Shain was a Canadian author and journalist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
generosity accepting
It takes great generosity to accept generosity.
good-luck past years
It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne 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.
anger passion night
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 feel less vulnerable for a little while.
compassion
Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.
real thinking empty-vessels
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.
love doe
It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.
moon names rockets
Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.
healing past never-change
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.
mean loving-someone different
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 turn out the same
spring promise silent
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
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.
love roots water
The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.
sex deep-love fire
Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.
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.