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
Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better. Epictetus
No one can alter how they are perceived or regarded in the minds of those who doubt and fear. Terry Brooks, The Last Druid