Aug '25 • General Discussion
Motivational Quote 💭
Meditations: Book 3
“We must take into our reckoning not only that life is expended day by day and the remaining balance diminishes, but also this further consideration: if we live longer, there is no guarantee that our mind will likewise retain that power to comprehend and study the world which contributes to our experience of things divine and human. If dementia sets in, there will be no failure of such faculties as breathing, feeding, imagination, desire: before these go, the earlier extinction is of one's proper use of oneself, one's accurate assessment of the gradations of duty, one's ability to analyse impressions, one's understanding of whether the time has come to leave this life - these and all other matters which wholly depend on trained calculation. So we must have a sense of urgency, not only for the ever closer approach of death, but also because our comprehension of the world and our ability to pay proper attention will fade before we do.”
-Marcus Aurelius
This passage in the book made me contemplate on the amount of time I wasted and let slip me by not doing “what I was supposed to be doing”. It also motivates me to live by the saying “momento mori” or “remember you must die”, which lights a fire in me to take action. In times of regret I think of my favourite quote…
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become"
-Carl Jung
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