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Quotes About Moment

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. 6. Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That's all you need.
~ 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
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
no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
~ Marcus Aurelius
time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. Every
~ Marcus Aurelius
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
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Life for each of us is a mere moment, and this life of yours is nearly over, while you still show yourself no honour, but let your own welfare depend on other people's souls.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The present moment is equal for all; so what is passing is equal also; the loss therefore turns out to be the merest fragment of time. No one can lose either the past or the future – how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Second, that both the longest-lived and the earliest to die suffer the same loss. It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if indeed this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
~ Marcus Aurelius
When the object perishes, the pneuma that animated it is reabsorbed into the logos as a whole. This process of destruction and reintegration happens to individual objects at every moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius
tanto el que goza de un tiempo más largo como el que ha de morir rápidamente deja atrás lo mismo, porque sólo es el presente de lo que va a verse privado, si es eso lo único que tiene y si uno no deja atrás lo que no tiene.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Whether he lives a long time or a short time amounts to the same thing, for the present moment is of equal duration for everyone, and that is all any man possesses.
~ Marcus Aurelius
nenhum homem perde vida alguma além daquela que ele vive hoje, nem vive outra vida além daquela que se vai.
~ Marcus Aurelius
when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Life is a pilgrimage and a struggle. All we have of time is a moment; the universe is in constant flux; our bodies are fragile; our senses grasp so little; our souls are a mist; the future is a fog; and fame is fleeting.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible to see because it lies in the unknowable future.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before this moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus, and live it as nature directs. p66
~ Marcus Aurelius
Acuérdate siempre que no se pierde otra vida que la que se vive y que solo se vive la que se pierde. Así­ la mas larga vida y la mas corta vienen a reducirse a lo mismo. El momento presente que se vive es igual para todos el que se pierde lo es también, y este que se pierde llega a parecernos indivisible. Y es que no se pierde el pasado ni el futuro, pues lo que no poseemos ¿Cómo puede sernos arrebatado
~ Marcus Aurelius
This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar...
~ Margaret Atwood
But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.
~ Margaret Atwood
I was buying time. One is always buying something.
~ Margaret Atwood
Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.
~ Margaret Atwood