Quotes I've found interesting

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

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Seneca  

No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

Marcus Aurelius  

Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?

Neil Parischa  

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius  

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

You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.

Kore,   Spartacus, s04e10

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

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

Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.

@intentionally,   Twitter