Live Life in the Present

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.

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 (121 AD - 180 AD)

Live Life in the Present

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.

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 (121 AD - 180 AD)