When so much is being thrown at you, when there is so much you could be thinking about or doing, the strength to tune it out and do the one thing that must be done is essential.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 4/16/2021
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
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
You stand as you always have. A good man does what he must.
Kore, Spartacus, s04e10
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, AZ Quotes
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Seneca
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
Life without design is erratic.
Seneca
Excess in anything becomes a fault.
Seneca
Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.
@intentionally, Twitter
Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?
Neil Parischa