Shay McClean

Shay’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (189)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (326)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
south-asian‎ (32)
politics-etc‎ (12)
for-sam‎ (10)
lgbtq‎ (10)
latinx‎ (7)
history‎ (6)

native‎ (6)
poc‎ (6)
culture-through-food‎ (5)
nonfic‎ (4)
trans‎ (4)
funny-alphabet-books‎ (3)
jewish‎ (3)
middle-east-islam‎ (3)
aapi‎ (2)
body-positivity‎ (2)

folk-tales‎ (2)
grief-empathy‎ (2)
juneteenth‎ (2)
animals‎ (1)
baking‎ (1)
china‎ (1)
disability-representation‎ (1)
drag‎ (1)
illness‎ (1)
immigrant-experience‎ (1)

korea‎ (1)
media-literacy‎ (1)
mental-health-for-kids‎ (1)
mexico‎ (1)
potty-training‎ (1)
tough-conversations‎ (1)
wndb‎ (1)

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Shay’s Quotes

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: life

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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: happiness, success

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