You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself! — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies. Thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will certainly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
