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.
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but wh… - Merle Shain
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but wh…
- Merle Shain
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. - Merle Shain
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.
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know… - Merle Shain
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know…
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 th… - Merle Shain
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 th…
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more. - Merle Shain
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.
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. - Merle Shain
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.
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 … - Merle Shain
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 …
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. - Merle Shain
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.
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 t… - Merle Shain
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 t…
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