Quotes I've found interesting

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius  

It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.

Shane Botwin,   Weeds, s05e10

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

There’s no reason to rush through bedtime. There’s no reason to rush through anything or to anywhere. Because what we’re rushing from is our children and the limited time we get with them — the amount of which is never guaranteed.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic - How the Pandemic Changed Me as a Parent

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

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 time you enjoyed wasting really wasted time?

Neil Parischa  

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

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

No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

Marcus Aurelius