Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
I love those who can smile in trouble.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the strength and resilience of those who can maintain a positive attitude during difficult times.
Leonardo Da Vinci's quote highlights the admirable quality of individuals who can retain a smile and an optimistic outlook even when faced with challenges. This ability not only reflects inner strength but also inspires others to cope with adversity in a constructive manner. Smiling in trouble signifies resilience and a proactive approach to life's difficulties, indicating that maintaining a positive perspective can be a powerful tool in overcoming hardships.
In practice
During a motivational speech about coping with failure.
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.
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.
If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.
Chase after the truth like all hell.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
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