Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better.
Epictetus
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
Marcus Aurelius
Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email
If you’re going a thousand miles an hour, if you see everything as a problem to be solved, what kind of life is that? Especially in a world where time once past can never be recovered, where everything is so fleeting, it’s a terrible shame to waste it.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 3/31/2022
No one can alter how they are perceived or regarded in the minds of those who doubt and fear.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid
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
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
Undergo hardship voluntarily. Then, you will be better prepared for life’s involuntary hardships.
Unknown
We do not find virtue in a man by the quality of his circumstances, but the quality of his actions.
Unknown
...life deals out unexpected joys and sorrows, and we can but treasure or suffer each.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid