Some men are more perfect than others. Merle Shain More Quotes by Merle Shain More Quotes From Merle Shain Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport. Merle Shain girl sports sex when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you. Merle Shain world There are some decisions in life that only you can make. Merle Shain daring decision Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself. Merle Shain compassion 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. Merle Shain passion anger night One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you. Merle Shain never-change healing past We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night. Merle Shain growing-up marriage night 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. Merle Shain roots love water Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves. Merle Shain destiny strong dream There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get. Merle Shain use perfect men Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced. Merle Shain marriage loneliness giving 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. Merle Shain divorce work-out persons It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth. Merle Shain doe love 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. Merle Shain empty-vessels real thinking 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. Merle Shain faithful infidelity people Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring. Merle Shain silent spring promise The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored. Merle Shain kind done men Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all. Merle Shain one-woman advantage men The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long. Merle Shain falling-in-love taken dream Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try. Merle Shain humility play men
