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.
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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