Collected

Quotes

Lines worth keeping — sources, context, and the occasional thought of my own.

No one can alter how they are perceived or regarded in the minds of those who doubt and fear.
— Terry Brooks The Last Druid
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...
— Terry Brooks The Last Druid
Your heart will whisper to you. Your conscience will guide you. Your truth will reveal itself.
— Terry Brooks The Last Druid
...life deals out unexpected joys and sorrows, and we can but treasure or suffer each.
— 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
Is this not the time when a man must take time to appreciate what he has?
— Brandon Sanderson Towers of Midnight
Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
— Brandon Sanderson Towers of Midnight
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
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
— Marguerite Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian
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 Notes
Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.
— Ryan Holiday Daily Stoic Email
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
— Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
— Marcus Aurelius
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. Tru...
— Aaron Francis The ReadME Project
Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?
— Neil Parischa