Quotes I've found interesting

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

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

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

Seneca  

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

Unknown  

Life without design is erratic.

Seneca  

If you’ve lost your job, if you went through a painful breakup, if you’ve been forced to start over, if your sandcastle or your ship has been swallowed up—congratulations, you’ve been gifted a remarkable opportunity. You get to choose the life you want to build. Well done, Fortune, to drive you thus to the life you’ve always wanted.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email, 8/10/2021

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

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

@intentionally,   Twitter

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

Marcus Aurelius  

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

Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic Email