Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
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
In every situation, you can find a better story to tell yourself about the person who cut you off in traffic, about the cashier in the checkout line you’re stuck in, about the email you still haven’t gotten a reply to, about the player who isn’t performing the way you need them to. You just need to be aware enough of the circumstance and of your mind’s own tendency to react, in order to consider other options, to see other handles, to ask, “is this the only story?”
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 4/14/2022
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
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
To Marcus the true measure of his wealth was that whenever he saw someone in need of help, he could provide it. Moreover, that wealth afforded him a unique luxury: he would never have to ask for such a favor in return.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 11/19/2021
Deliberately designing one’s life isn’t only possible. It’s imperative.
@intentionally, Twitter
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Seneca
Whether you want to call yourself a Stoic or not, is not really the point. Actually, that is the point. Labels are _pointless._ They close your mind. They close you off to opportunities. They close you off to other people. And worst of all, with time, they close you off from the very things you identify with.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Email, 8/10/2021
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. Trust me, it's hard to unwind. Possible! But hard.
Aaron Francis, The ReadME Project