Quotes I've found interesting

Undergo hardship voluntarily. Then, you will be better prepared for life’s involuntary hardships.

Unknown  

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

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

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

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

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

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. Some beliefs are fixed in stone.

Terry Brooks,   The Last Druid

A Stoic thinks, acts, and then accepts. They do not dream, expect and wait.  Because they are not entitled, naive children.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 12/9/2021

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

Unknown  

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

Brandon Sanderson,   Mistborn