Merle Shain
Merle Shain
Merle Shain was a Canadian author and journalist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryCanada
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.
book pages way
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.
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.
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.
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.
marriage commitment soul
I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.
people helping persons
Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.
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.