...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — 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
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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
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
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — 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
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the… — 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
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
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
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future .… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — 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
Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen.… — 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
“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.” — 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
