Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate… — 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
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
“time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go… — 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
“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
All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time… — 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
“Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten… — 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
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — 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
“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
“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from… — 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
“Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and… — 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