Quotes I've found interesting

Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.

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

It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.

Shane Botwin, Weeds, s05e10

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

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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

Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?

Neil Parischa

What has been need not always be.

The Witcher, The Witcher, s02e02

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

We are wrong to think that death is ahead of us. Much of our life has already passed. The years we have lived so far are in death's hands.

Seneca, Moral Letters 1

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