Quotes I've found interesting

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 man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.

Seneca  

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

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

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero,   AZ Quotes

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Seneca  

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

...life deals out unexpected joys and sorrows, and we can but treasure or suffer each.

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  

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

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