I was scanning the bookshelves in my library, looking for some inspiration for today's post- and I found some. I spotted a book by Ayn Rand, and it took me back to my day of book report writing for my dad. I remember reading 'Atlas Shrugged' awhile back and while it was not my favorite book, it wa beneficial to my schooling. In honor of that, here are some of the best quotes from Ayn Rand that I've found.
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” “To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".” “Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.” “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” “Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.” “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.” “The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.” “Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.” “I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”
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