Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Interpretation
Living a fulfilling life leads to peace and satisfaction at its end.
Leonardo Da Vinci's quote reflects on the idea that just as a productive and fulfilling day results in a contented sleep, a life lived with purpose, intention, and fulfillment leads to a peaceful conclusion. The concept emphasizes the importance of making the most out of our time, suggesting that our daily choices and the way we live profoundly impact our overall satisfaction and eventual mortality.
In practice
In a graduation speech urging students to find meaningful careers.
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 feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.
God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.
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