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

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 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 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

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

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

- 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.

- 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…

- Merle Shain