Angella McLean's favorite quotes

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
— Pearl S. Buck

21 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

3,710 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love

2,155 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship

7,193 people liked it

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

tags: inspirational

235 people liked it

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

1,820 people liked it

""All gods are one god." The Merlin of Briton"
— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)

tags: merlin

17 people liked it

"There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
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— Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon)

42 people liked it

"Who is John Galt?"
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

72 people liked it

"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

67 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

6,073 people liked it

"Don't Panic"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: gets, me, some, things, through, weird

487 people liked it

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
— Douglas Adams

tags: atheism, intelligence

177 people liked it

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively usual thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."
— Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story)

tags: humor

90 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading

2,953 people liked it

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, reading

774 people liked it

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education

267 people liked it

"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."
— Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends)

tags: how, many, much

427 people liked it

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. "
— Pearl S. Buck

25 people liked it

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
— Alice Walker

152 people liked it

"Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself."
— Alice Walker

18 people liked it

"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification."
— Karl Popper

tags: science

18 people liked it

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
— Robert M. Pirsig

tags: inspirational, truth, zen

44 people liked it

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

24 people liked it

"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there."
— Robert M. Pirsig

21 people liked it

"You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
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— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

12 people liked it

"In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..."
— Robert M. Pirsig

tags: philosophy

7 people liked it

"The pencil is mightier than the pen."
— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

4 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women

6,784 people liked it

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

tags: humor, women, zealousness

142 people liked it

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