Quotes I've found interesting

No one can alter how they are perceived or regarded in the minds of those who doubt and fear.

Terry Brooks,   The Last Druid

Is time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?

Neil Parischa  

When so much is being thrown at you, when there is so much you could be thinking about or doing, the strength to tune it out and do the one thing that must be done is essential.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 4/16/2021

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

Terry Brooks,   The Last Druid

Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.

@intentionally,   Twitter

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

Excess in anything becomes a fault.

Seneca  

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

Seneca  

What has been need not always be.

The Witcher,   The Witcher, s02e02

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