Decisions are made and consequences follow, it is the way. Our task is to deal with the present.
King Alfred, The Last Kingdom, s02e06
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?
Brandon Sanderson, Towers of Midnight
This is what you deserve. You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow.
Marcus Aurelius, @dailystoic
Life without design is erratic.
Seneca
Your heart will whisper to you. Your conscience will guide you. Your truth will reveal itself.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid
It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.
Shane Botwin, Weeds, s05e10
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
No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
Marcus Aurelius
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