Quotes I've found interesting

This is what you deserve. You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow.

Marcus Aurelius,   @dailystoic

No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

Marcus Aurelius  

To Marcus the true measure of his wealth was that whenever he saw someone in need of help, he could provide it. Moreover, that wealth afforded him a unique luxury: he would never have to ask for such a favor in return.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 11/19/2021

Whether you want to call yourself a Stoic or not, is not really the point. Actually, that is the point. Labels are _pointless._ They close your mind. They close you off to opportunities. They close you off to other people. And worst of all, with time, they close you off from the very things you identify with.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 8/10/2021

People were so easily fooled. All you had to do was give them a reason to believe something and they would almost always do so.

Terry Brooks,   The Last Druid

Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email

If you’ve lost your job, if you went through a painful breakup, if you’ve been forced to start over, if your sandcastle or your ship has been swallowed up—congratulations, you’ve been gifted a remarkable opportunity. You get to choose the life you want to build. Well done, Fortune, to drive you thus to the life you’ve always wanted.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 8/10/2021

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London  

Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.

Shane Botwin,   Weeds, s05e10