It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, AZ Quotes
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Seneca
Decisions are made and consequences follow, it is the way. Our task is to deal with the present.
King Alfred, The Last Kingdom, s02e06
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
No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
Marcus Aurelius
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
No one can alter how they are perceived or regarded in the minds of those who doubt and fear.
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
This is what you deserve. You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow.
Marcus Aurelius, @dailystoic
It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.
Shane Botwin, Weeds, s05e10