Undergo hardship voluntarily. Then, you will be better prepared for life’s involuntary hardships.
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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
No one can alter how they are perceived or regarded in the minds of those who doubt and fear.
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
Your heart will whisper to you. Your conscience will guide you. Your truth will reveal itself.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid
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
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, AZ Quotes
Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better.
Epictetus
...life deals out unexpected joys and sorrows, and we can but treasure or suffer each.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid
Whether you want to call yourself a Stoic or not, is not really the point. Actually, that is the point. Labels are _pointless._ They close your mind. They close you off to opportunities. They close you off to other people. And worst of all, with time, they close you off from the very things you identify with.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 8/10/2021