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.
A Stoic thinks, acts, and then accepts. They do not dream, expect and wait. Because they are not entitled, naive children.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 12/9/2021
You stand as you always have. A good man does what he must.
Kore, Spartacus, s04e10
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius
Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
Brandon Sanderson, Towers of Midnight
Life without design is erratic.
Seneca
It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.
Shane Botwin, Weeds, s05e10
What has been need not always be.
The Witcher, The Witcher, s02e02
You deserve moments like that. Moments where you watch the snow fall. Moments where you sit quietly with a book. Moments where you look out the train window, not on a conference call, not checking email, not wondering how long until you arrive in the city, but a moment to check in with yourself, to think about your life and what you want to do with it. Moments with loved ones. Moments where you are grateful, connected, happy, creative, in the zone—doing whatever it is that you do best. When the Stoics talk about stillness, they aren’t talking about some abstract notion. They are talking about maybe the most important thing you can be doing in your life. They are saying that all the “work” you are doing, all the thoughts you’re expending trying to get ahead, trying to force a breakthrough, are pointless. The real way to charge ahead is to slow down. To clear your mind. To rejoice in perfect stillness, free of the future and the past, fully present and locked in. You can do it. You deserve that.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 4/23/2021
Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better.
Epictetus