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Moments Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again…
- Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one…
- Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he…
- In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a…
- Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at…
- Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of…
- Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among…
- Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch…
- Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life…
- Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the…
- Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus....
- Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is…
- Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you…
- In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a…
- Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
- No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is…
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