No one can alter how they are perceived or regarded in the minds of those who doubt and fear.
Terry Brooks, The Last Druid
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
To Marcus the true measure of his wealth was that whenever he saw someone in need of help, he could provide it. Moreover, that wealth afforded him a unique luxury: he would never have to ask for such a favor in return.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 11/19/2021
This is what you deserve. You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow.
Marcus Aurelius, @dailystoic
When your efforts are not directed at a cause or a purpose, how will you know what to do day in and day out? How will you know what to say no to and what to say yes to? How will you know when you’ve had enough, when you’ve reached your goal, when you’ve gotten off track, if you’ve never defined what those things are?
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic
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
Decisions are made and consequences follow, it is the way. Our task is to deal with the present.
King Alfred, The Last Kingdom, s02e06
Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.
@intentionally, Twitter
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius
People were so easily fooled. All you had to do was give them a reason to believe something and they would almost always do so.
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