Shay McClean

Shay’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (189)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (326)
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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“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: books, bookstore, towns

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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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