Merle Shain

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.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

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 they are standing by.

Some men are more perfect than others.

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.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.

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.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.