Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. — 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
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
Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do… — 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
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
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more… — 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
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe,… — 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
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a… — 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
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
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
