"Each of us lives only now, this..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.
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“Observe constantly that all things take place by change.”
“Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.”
“You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.”
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“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”
“I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it.”
“The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”
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“I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.”
“Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”
“Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.”