Quotes I've found interesting

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius  

Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email

We do not find virtue in a man by the quality of his circumstances, but the quality of his actions.

Unknown  

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

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

Marcus Aurelius  

Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

What has been need not always be.

The Witcher,   The Witcher, s02e02

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

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

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