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Quotes About Present

If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you speak, you will live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The present is all that you can give up, since that is all that you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time. Whatsoever is besides either is already past, or uncertain.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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 is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses. This means that the longest life and the shortest amount to the same thing. For the passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours.
~ Marcus Aurelius
every man lives the present time only, and loses only this.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Everything you're trying to reach—by taking the long way round—you could have right now, this moment. If you'd only stop thwarting your own attempts. If you'd only let go of the past, entrust the future to Providence, and guide the present toward reverence
~ Marcus Aurelius
Um período limitado de tempo lhe foi concedido, e se não o aproveitar para limpar as brumas de sua mente, o tempo escorrerá junto com a sua vida, para nunca mais retornar.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Then remind yourself that past and future have no power over you. Only the present—and even that can be minimized. Just mark off its limits. And if your mind tries to claim that it can't hold out against that . . . well, then, heap shame upon it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The person who lives shortest owns the exact same amount of life as the one who lives longest. For the present is all we have and all we can lose. When we die, we don't "lose" the past or future—we never owned them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy present conduct directed to social good, and thy present disposition of contentment with everything which happens- that is enough. Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power. Among
~ Marcus Aurelius
Everywhere and continually it is in your power to be reverently content with your present circumstance, to behave to men who are present with you according to right and to handle skillfully the present impression, that nothing you have not mastered may cross the threshold of the mind.
~ Marcus Aurelius
10. Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has 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.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Que lhe resta senão aproveitar o que lhe resta da vida, encadeando uma boa ação à outra, de modo a não permitir o mais breve intervalo entre elas?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Wipe out the imagination. Stop the pulling of the strings. Confine thyself to the present. Understand well what happens either to thee or to another. Divide and distribute every object into the causal (formal) and the material. Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done. Direct
~ Marcus Aurelius
bear in mind that every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or it is uncertain.
~ Marcus Aurelius
still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
~ Marcus Aurelius
26. You've seen that. Now look at this. Don't be disturbed. Uncomplicate yourself. Someone has done wrong … to himself. Something happens to you. Good. It was meant for you by nature, woven into the pattern from the beginning. Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present—thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation.
~ Marcus Aurelius
To comprehend all in a few words, our life is short; we must endeavour to gain the present time with best discretion and justice.
~ Marcus Aurelius
44. Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?
~ Marcus Aurelius
If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you should be bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with your present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no-one who is able to prevent this.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Borra la imaginación detén el impulso de marioneta. Circunscríbete al momento presente. Comprende lo que te sucede a ti o a otro. Divide y separa el objeto dado en su aspecto causal y material. Piensa en tu hora postrera la falta cometida por aquel dejala allí donde se origino
~ Marcus Aurelius
no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Wipe out the imagination. Stop the pulling of the strings. Confine thyself to the present. Understand well what happens either to thee or to another. Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material. Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done
~ Marcus Aurelius