Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?
Neil Parischa
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, AZ Quotes
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
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
Burnout isn't the number of hours you work. It's too much effort on things that are against your core interests and values.
Sarah Drasner, Twitter
If you’ve lost your job, if you went through a painful breakup, if you’ve been forced to start over, if your sandcastle or your ship has been swallowed up—congratulations, you’ve been gifted a remarkable opportunity. You get to choose the life you want to build. Well done, Fortune, to drive you thus to the life you’ve always wanted.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 8/10/2021
We do not find virtue in a man by the quality of his circumstances, but the quality of his actions.
Unknown
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