Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
One's thoughts turn towards Hope.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of hope in shaping our thoughts and actions.
Leonardo Da Vinci suggests that hope plays a crucial role in directing our thoughts and aspirations. It is through hope that we find the motivation to pursue our goals and overcome challenges, as it encourages a positive perspective and the belief in a better future.
In practice
In a speech about resilience after a setback.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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