Decisions are made and consequences follow, it is the way. Our task is to deal with the present.
King Alfred, The Last Kingdom, s02e06
Quotes I've found interesting
Quotes about stoicism, software development, personal development or just whatever I wanted to remember.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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
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
Excess in anything becomes a fault.
Seneca
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
No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
Marcus Aurelius
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
It was this thing that happened today. But other things happen other days. Things will happen tomorrow.
Shane Botwin, Weeds, s05e10
The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.
Seneca