Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Real good luck would be to abandon life without ever encountering dishonesty, or hypocrisy, or self-indulgence, or pride. But the “next best… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Consider individuals, survey men in general; there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. "What harm is there… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Do not disturb yourself by thinking of the whole of your life. Do not let your thoughts at once embrace all the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In the life of man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. — 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
