Excess in anything becomes a fault.
Seneca
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better.
Epictetus
This is what you deserve. You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow.
Marcus Aurelius, @dailystoic
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
You also have a duty to your future self to release the project. Every time you don't release a project, you're telling yourself that you’re the kind of person who doesn't ship. Tell yourself that enough, and you'll start to believe it. Trust me, it's hard to unwind. Possible! But hard.
Aaron Francis, The ReadME Project
If you’ve lost your job, if you went through a painful breakup, if you’ve been forced to start over, if your sandcastle or your ship has been swallowed up—congratulations, you’ve been gifted a remarkable opportunity. You get to choose the life you want to build. Well done, Fortune, to drive you thus to the life you’ve always wanted.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 8/10/2021
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
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
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
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius