Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?
Brandon Sanderson, Towers of Midnight
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
There’s no reason to rush through bedtime. There’s no reason to rush through anything or to anywhere. Because what we’re rushing from is our children and the limited time we get with them — the amount of which is never guaranteed.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic - How the Pandemic Changed Me as a Parent
In every situation, you can find a better story to tell yourself about the person who cut you off in traffic, about the cashier in the checkout line you’re stuck in, about the email you still haven’t gotten a reply to, about the player who isn’t performing the way you need them to. You just need to be aware enough of the circumstance and of your mind’s own tendency to react, in order to consider other options, to see other handles, to ask, “is this the only story?”
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 4/14/2022
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
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
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, AZ Quotes
Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better.
Epictetus
We do not find virtue in a man by the quality of his circumstances, but the quality of his actions.
Unknown
It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.
Shane Botwin, Weeds, s05e10