Quotes I've found interesting

Undergo hardship voluntarily. Then, you will be better prepared for life’s involuntary hardships.

Unknown  

Life without design is erratic.

Seneca  

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

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  

We do not find virtue in a man by the quality of his circumstances, but the quality of his actions.

Unknown  

We are all victims of our lives, and we cannot change what we do in the aftermath; we can only try to make up for it. Nor can we change the minds of all those who have come to see us as they wrongly believe us to be. Some can never forget. Some beliefs are fixed in stone.

Terry Brooks,   The Last Druid

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

Brandon Sanderson,   Mistborn

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

Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?

Neil Parischa  

Don't just say that you have read books.  Show that through them you have learned to think better.

Epictetus